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HISTORY 



OP THE 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA, 



AND OF THE 



PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 



BY 

Eev. ALFKED JSTEYIN, D.D., LL.D. 




PHILADELPHIA : 
W. S. FOKTESCUE & CO. 

1888. 



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PREFACE. 



" Remember the days of old," was the exhortation of Moses 
to Israel, as though he had said, *' Look back, call up the 
former scenes and personages, treasure them as means of per- 
sonal improvement, celebrate them as illustrations of God's 
care, interposition, and kindness — the evidences of His fidelity 
to all generations as the covenant-keeping Jehovah, read over 
the authentic accounts, preserve the knowledge of the heroism, 
the devotion, the faith, and the piety of your worthies, forget 
not the escape from Egypt, the Red Sea deliverance, the 
national establishment in Canaan, and the various achieve- 
ments of your ancestors under the most trying conditions." 

Our General Assembly but acted in the spirit of the great 
Lawgiver's appeal to the Hebrews, when it resolved to signalize 
its approaching Centennial Celebration by calling for the pre- 
paration of histories of the Congregations, Presbyteries, and 
Synods under its care. A church so eminent as ours for 
learning, piety, zeal, and success in the furtherance of Christ's 
cause and kingdom, is bound by solemn obligation to God, to 
the world, and to itself, to see that its aims and achievements 
are not left to float down the stream of time through misty 
traditions, or, perhaps, by reason of fragmentary, scattered, 



VI PREFACE. 

and inaccessible records, to pass into gradual and absolute 
oblivion. To no denomination of Christians does the counsel 
come with stronger reason or deeper emphasis: "Walk about 
Zion, and go round about her, tell the towers thereof. Mark 
ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, that ye may tell it 
to the generation following." 

A peculiar interest attaches to the " Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia," which, as the first organized court of the denomination 
in this country, is to be regarded by American Presbyterians 
as 'Hhe mother of us all." As the appointed historiographer 
of this venerable body, as well as of the "Presbytery of Phila- 
delphia Central," which is one with it in spirit, effort, and aim, 
the author — whilst duly appreciating the honor conferred — has 
faithfully endeavored to meet his high responsibility, by making 
all practicable research, and by availing himself freely of such 
aid, within his reach, as would tend to make the volume as 
complete and satisfactory as possible. As the existence of the 
First Presbytery covers so many ages, and the details of its 
development are of such general interest, a wider scope has 
been given to its annals than would otherwise have been 
deemed either necessary or proper. The Poll of its Members, 
prepared by the Rev. Willard M. Pice, D.D., and kindly 
furnished by him for our use, is gratefully acknowledged as- a 
valuable contribution to the history. 

And now, Lord, "let thy w^ork appear unto thy servants, 
and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the 
Lord our God be upon us : and establish Thou the work of our 
hands upon us : yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it." 



PREFACE. 



Vll 



The following Statistical Table, prepared by the Rev. 
William Henry Roberts, D.D., Stated Clerk of the General 
Assembly, and containing in brief the record of the growth 
and progress of the Presbyterian Church in the United States 
of America for nearly two hundred and fifty years, will be 
found interesting and useful for reference. Prior to 1789 
accurate figures appear to be unattainable. 

The Growth of the Preshyterian Churchy 1640-1887, 
hy Periods. 









Additions 


Couimuni- 


Benevolent 


Years. 


Ministers. 


Churches. 


on 
Confession. 


cants. 


Contribu- 
tions. 


1640. . . . 


5? 


2? 


? 


f 




1690. 








10? 


18? 


... 


l',000 ? 




1705 . 








12? 


22? 


... 


1,500 ? 




1717. 








19 


40? 


... 


3,000 ? 




1745 . 








48 


80? 


... 


5,000 ? 




1758. 








98 


200? 




10,000 ? 




1789 . 








177 


431 




18,000? 


$852 


1800. 








189 


449 




20,000 ? 


(?) 2,500 


1810. 








434 


772 


... 


28,S01 


5,43S 


1820. 








741 


1299 


8,021 


72,096 


12,861 


1830. 








1491 


2158 


11,748 


173,327 


184,192 


1837. 








2140 


2S65 


11,580 


220,557 


281,989 


1839 {g 


S. 






1615 


1673 


6,377 


126,583 


134,439 


. S. 






1093 


1260 


4,691 


106,000 


Not given 


1849{0 


S. 






1860 


2512 


8,976 


200,830 


369,371 


. s. 






1453 


1555 


10,190 


139,047 


Not given 


1859 1^ 


s. 






2577 


3487 


23,945 


279,630 


764,668 


.s. 






1545 


1542 


10,705 


137,950 


266,574 


1869{S 


s. 






2381 


2740 


15,389 


258,963 


1,346,179 


.s. 






1848 


1721 


9,707 


172,560 


753,953 


1870. 








4238 


4526 


32,003 


446,561 


2,023,956 


1880. 








5044 


5489 


26,838 


578,671 


2,262,871 


1887 .... 


5654 


6436 


53,886 


697,835 


3,196,458 



Note — The strength of the Presbyterian Church in the 
United States (South), which met first in General Assembly 



Vlll PREFACE. 

at Augusta, Georgia, December 4, 1861, was, in 1887, 1116 
ministers, 2236 churches, and 150,398 communicants. The 
Presbyterian Church (North) has within the same territory 
567 ministers, 826 churches, and 60,275 communicants. 



HISTORY 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA 



CHAPTER I. 

INTRODUCTORY — THE PRESBYTERIAN SYSTEM. 

Basis of Faith. 

Presbyterianism, as a system of religious faith, while 
claiming a Scriptural origin and basis, yet recognizes 
the Westminster Assembly's Confession of Faith and 
Larger and Shorter Catechisms as an epitomized em- 
bodiment of the great credenda which underlie its 
existence and constitute the source of its power. It 
does not regard that venerable body of divines as the 
inventor of its doctrinal standards, but only as their 
systematizer — ever pressing back with the Reformers to 
Christ and the Bible for the only infallible rule and 
authority of faith and practice. To say that these 
standards are invaluable for their condensation, clear- 
ness of definition and statement, logical arrangement, 
and unshrinking fidelity to the truth which they under- 
take to summarize and substantiate, would be merely 
an affirmation of what those who have given them the 



10 PRESBYTEEY 

most intelligent, candid, and thorough examination 
are the readiest to acknowledge. 



Order. 

The title Presbyterian comes from the Greek word 
Presbuteros^ which signifies elder, intimating that the 
government of the Church in the i^ew Testament was 
by Presbyteries, that is, by association of ministers and 
elders — the former so called because they preached as 
w^ell as ruled, and the latter commissioned to govern, 
whence they derived their name, but both possessed of 
equal powers, without any superiority among them, 
either in office or order. Presbyterians believe that 
the authority of their ministers to preach the gospel, 
to administer the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's 
Supper, is derived from the Holy Ghost by the imposi- 
tion of the hands of the Presbytery. They affirm, 
however, that there is no order in the Church, as estab- 
lished by Christ and his Apostles, superior to that of 
Presbyters, that all ministers, being ambassadors of 
Christ, are equal by their commission, that Presbyter 
{Presbuteros) and Bishop {PJpiscopos), though different 
w^ords, are of the same import. 

"Presbyterians admit," says an able writer, "that in 
the course of time the word ' Bishop' assumed a very 
different meaning, and when it could no longer be said, 
as Yice-Principal Hatch declares in his ' Bampton Lee- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 11 

tures/ that ' the early Bishop stood to his Presbyters 
in the relation of a chairman to the ordinary members 
of a committee,' or, as Presbyterians would say, as the 
Moderator to the members of a Church Session or 
Presbytery over which he presides. Without making 
any reflection on the polity of others, Presbyterians 
have reason to be gratified at the frequent admissions 
made by others as to the Scriptural character of their 
own, and they have special occasion to admire the 
candor with which men eminent for learning and piety, 
and loyal to their own system of Church government, 
such as Usher and Whately, Hallam and Macaulay, 
Dean Howson and Dr. Jacob, Dean Stanley and Canon 
Farrar, Sir Peter King and Bishop Lightfoot, have 
expressed themselves with regard to the constitution 
of the Primitive Church, echoing back the voice of 
Jerome from the fourth century, when he says, ' A 
Presbyter is the same, therefore, as a Bishop ;' and 
before there arose preferences in religion, and it was 
said among the people, ' I am of Paul, I of Apollos, I 
of Cephas,' the churches were governed by a common 
council of Presbyters. , . . . If it be supposed this is 
not the sense of the Scriptures, but my own opinion, 
that Bishops and Presbyters are one,' and that one is 
the name of age and the other of office, read again the 

words of the Apostle to the Philippians These 

things are recorded that we may show that the ancient 



12 PRESBYTERY 

Presbyters were the same as the Bishops, but by little 
and little, that the roots of dissension might be torn 
up, the whole trouble was devolved on one." 

Government. 

Such is Presbyterianism as a system of Church gov- 
ernment. Its core is the eldership — the whole elder- 
ship being the organ for the exercise of the power of 
the Church, and a portion of it, specially ordained 
thereto, being appointed to discharge the duties of the 
pulpit and the pastoral office. There is no j^rimus 
inter pares — no first among equals — but all are ^^(^[res in 
Christo j^^^if'to — all equals in Christ, w^ho is tbe first. 
The whole Church is compacted into unity by a system 
of courts — lower, higher, and highest — the lowest being 
subordinate to the next higher, and all to the highest. 

Unity. 

Dr. Thornwell has thus forcibly stated the unity ivhich 
i^ secured by the system of representative assemblies in the 
Presbyterian Church. " The government of the Church 
is not intrusted to individuals, nor to the mass of 
believers, but to councils. Every judicial and legisla- 
tive function is* performed by courts alone. Govern- 
ment is not administered by a single individual, that 
would be monarchy; nor by a privileged class, that 
would be oligarchy ; nor immediately by the people, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 13 

that would be democracy ; but it is administered by 
rexDresentative assemblies. These constitute a bond 
which brings all the parts together into unity, and 
gives to the Church the property of indefinite expan- 
sibility. ' A single congregation is governed by the 
Parochial Presbytery, several associated congregations 
by the Classical Presbytery, the whole Church by a 
Presbytery of representative Presbyters from all its 
bounds,' the General Assembly. This principle of 
representation is capable of embodying any number 
of believers. Whole continents may be made one 
body. There is but one Church, a set of congrega- 
tions bound together by the nexus of one parliament. 
Each congregation has every element of the Universal 
Church, and the Universal Church has no attribute 
which may not be found in one congregation. There 
is no organic difference between the Church Session 
and the largest General Assembly. Only two Churches 
on earth realize this idea of Church unity — Pome 
and our own. But these are the poles apart as to 
the system by which they realize it. Pome, with her 
infallible Pope at the head, and with graded autho- 
rities extending over the whole earth, one class subser- 
vient to another, secures a terrible unity, bending all 
abjectly to one throne. Our system, on the other hand, 
secures unity with the most perfect freedom." 

Of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 



14 PRESBYTERY 

in the United States, the late distinguished Roman 
Catholic, Archbishop Hughes, wrote as follows: 
"Though it is my privilege to regard the authority 
exercised by the General Assembly as usurpation, still, 
I must say, with every man acquainted with the mode 
in which it is organized, that, for the purposes of 
popular and political government, its structure is little 
inferior to that of Congress itself. It acts on the prin- 
ciple of a radiating centre, and is without equal or 
rival among the other denominations of the country." 

Scriptural Origin. 

At the close of his admirable little volume. What is 
Freshyterianism f Dr. Charles Hodge says: "It must 
strike every one that it is no device of man. It is not 
an external framework, having no connection with the 
inward life of the Church. It is a real growth. It is 
the outward expression of the inward law of the 
Church's being. If we teach that the people should 
have a substantial part in the government of the 
Church, it is not merely because we deem it healthful 
and expedient, but because the Holy Ghost dwells in 
the people of God, and gives the ability and confers 
the right to govern. If we teach that Presbyters are 
the highest permanent officers of the Church, it is 
because those gifts by which the Apostles and Pro- 
phets were raised above Presbyters have, in fact, 



OP PHILADELPHIA. 15 

ceased. If we teach, that the separate congregations 
of believers are not independent, it is because the 
Church is in fact one body, all the parts of which are 
mutually dependent. 

" If this is so — if there is an outward form of the 
Church which corresponds with its inward life, a form 
which is the natural expression and product of that life, 
then that form must be most conducive to its progress 
and development. Men may, by art, force a tree to 
grow in any fantastic shape a perverted taste may 
choose. But it is at the sacrifice of its vigor and 
productiveness. To reach its perfection, it must be 
left to unfold itself according to the law of its nature. 
It is so with the Church. If the people possess the 
gifts and graces which qualify and entitle them to take 
part in the government, then the exercise of that right 
tends to the development of those gifts and graces, and 
the denial of the right tends to their depression. In 
all the forms of despotism, whether civil or ecclesias- 
tical, the people are degraded, and in all forms of Scrip- 
tural liberty they are proportionably elevated. Every 
system which demands intelligence tends to produce it. 
Every man feels that it is not only one of the greatest 
advantages of our republican institutions that they tend 
to the education and elevation of the people, but that 
their successful operation, demanding popular intelli- 
gence and virtue, renders it necessary that constant 



16 PRESBYTERY 

exertion shonlcl be directed to the attainment of that 
end. As republican institutions cannot exist among 
the ignorant and vicious, so Presbyterianism must 
find the people enlightened and virtuous, or make 
them so. 

" It is the combination of the principles of liberty and 
order in the Presbyterian system, the union of the 
rights of the people with subjection to legitimate 
authority, that has made it the parent and guardian of 
civil liberty in every part of the world. This, how- 
ever, is merely an incidental advantage. The Church 
organization has higher aims. It is designed for the 
extension and establishment of the gospel, and for the 
edification of the body of Christ, till we all come to the 
unity of the faith and knowledge of the Son of God, 
and that polity must be best adapted to this end which 
is most congenial with the inward nature of the Church. 
It is on this ground we rest our preference for Presby- 
terianism. We do not regard it as a skilful product 
of human wisdom, but as a divine institution, founded 
on the word of God, and as the genuine product of the 
inward life of the Church." 

Orthodoxy. 

Presbyterian ism has ever been distinguished for the 
stress it has laid upon sound doctrine. It repudiates 
Rationalism, which would reduce all the truths and 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 17 

dictates of religion to the standard of human reason. 
Its symbol is the open Bible. Its watchword is " to 
the law and to the testimony." It has been wont to 
lend an attentive ear to the voice of the Spirit uttered 
in the Word.* It regards the Scriptures as the supreme 
standard of religious truth. Its testimony on this point 
is clear and distinct. 

' ' The Word of God, wliicli is contained in the Scriptures of the 
Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may 
glorify and enjoy him." Shorter Catechism, Ques. 2. 

"The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his 
own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set 
down in Scripture or by good and necessary consequence may be 
deduced from Scripture, unto which nothing at any time is to be 
added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit or traditions of 
men." Conf. of Faith, Ch. 1, Sec. vi. 

"Whatever notions of an exaggerated sort," says 
Isaac Taylor,t " may belong to some Calvinists, Cal- 
vinism, as distinguished from Arminianism, encircles 
or involves great truths, which, whether dimly or 
clearly discovered .... will never be abandoned 
while the Bible continues to be devoutly read, and 
which, if they might indeed be subverted, would drag 
to the same ruin every doctrine of revealed religion. . . . 

* Ezek. 3:17; 2 Tim. 1:13; 1 Tim. 4 : 6. 
f The profound author of the " Natural History of Enthusiasm," 
and the "Physical Theory of the Future Life." 



18 • PRESBYTERY^ 

Surely, whoever is competent to take a calm, an inde- 
pendent, and a truly philanthropic survey of the Chris- 
tian system, and can calculate also the balancings of 
opinion, the antitheses of belief, will grant that if Cal- 
vinism, in the modern sense of the term, were quite 
exploded, a long time could not elapse before evan- 
gelical Arminianism would find itself driven helplessly 
into the gulf that had yawned to receive its rival, and 
to this catastrophe must quickly succeed the triumph 
of the dead rationalism of !N"eology, and then that of 
Atheism."* 

Moral Influence. 

There can be no better criterion of a system of re- 
ligious doctrines than the effects which the belief of 
them produces. Grapes do not grow on bramble 
bushes. Illustrious natures do not form themselves on 
narrow and cruel theories. " A good tree cannot bring- 
forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree briog forth 
good fruit." Of this test Calvinism has no reason to 
be either ashamed or afraid. 

The historian Froude, who has no particular love for 
Calvinism, bears this testimony in its favor : — 

" When all else has failed, when patriotism has 
covered its face, and human courage has broken down, 

* Essay upon Edwards on the Will. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 19 

when intellect has yielded, as Gibbon says, ' with a 
smile or a sigh,' content to philosophize in the closet 
and abroad worship with the vulgar, when emotion 
and sentiment and tender imaginative piety have be- 
come the handmaids of superstition and have dreamt 
themselves into forgetfulness that there is any differ- 
ence between lies and truth, the slavish form of belief 
called Calvinism, in one or other of its many forms, 
has borne ever an inflexible front to illusion and men- 
dacity, and has preferred to be ground to powder like 
flint, rather than bend before violence, or melt uyder 
enervating temptation." 

Again, Mr. Froude, after referring to the "singular 
attractions which Calvinism in past ages has possessed 
for some of the greatest men that havaever lived," and 
mentioning, in illustration of what he afiirms, William 
the Silent, Luther, Knox, Andrew Melville, the Regent 
Murray, Coligny, Cromwell, Milton, and Bunyan, says 
of them : — 

" These were men possessed of all the qualities which 
give nobility and grandeur to human nature — men 
whose life was as upright as their intellect was com- 
manding and their public aims untainted with selfish- 
ness, unalterably just where duty required them to be; 
stern, but with the tenderness of a woman .in their 
hearts, frank, true, cheerful, humorous, as unlike some 
fanatics as it is possible to imagine any one, and able 



20 PRESBYTERY 

in some way to sound the key-note to which every brave 
and faithful heart in Europe instantly vibrates." 

Beyond all question Calvinism, instead of being un- 
friendly to morality, as its enemies allege, is unequalled 
by any other system in intensifying to the last degree 
ideas of moral excellence and purity of character. 
There never was a system since the world stood which 
puts upon man such motives to holiness, or which builds 
batteries which sweep the whole ground of sin with 
such horrible artillery. " Men may talk as much as 
they please," says an eminent divine, " against the Cal- 
vinists and Puritans and Presbyterians, but you will 
find that when they want to make an investment they 
have no objection to Calvinism or Puritanism or Pres- 
byterianism. They know that where these systems 
prevail, where the doctrine of men's obligation to God 
and man is taught and practised, there their capital 
may be safely invested." " They tell us," he continues, 
"that Calvinism plies men with hammer and chiseL 
It does^ and the result is monumental marble. Other 
systems leave men soft and dirty, Calvinism makes 
them of white marble, to endure forever." 

" The destruction of the former (the Huguenots and 
Jansenists, who were Calvinists) by the Revocation of 
the Edict of Nantes," says Lecky, " was the destruc- 
tion of the most solid, the most modest, the most vir- 
tuous, the most generally enlightened element in the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 21 

French nation, and it prepared the way for the inevi- 
table degradation of the national character, and the last 
serious bulwark was removed that might have broken 
the force of that torrent of skepticism and vice which 
a century later laid prostrate in merited ruin both the 
altar and the throne."* 

" Look, too, at Scotland before and after Knox and 
his co-laborers effected the Scottish Reformation. Ar- 
minianism, as exemplified in the Church of Rome, has 
had the training of that people for centuries, and what 
had it made of them ? Something less than human. 
Gross darkness covered the land and brooded like an 
eternal nightmare upon all the faculties of the people. 
Poverty, squalor, ignorance, vice, and wretchedness 
were the prevailing characteristics of society. But 
see the quick and marvelous change effected when 
once the free doctrines learned by Knox at Geneva 
flashed in upon their minds. It was as the sun rising 
in his fullness at midnight. And in their later history, 
so long as they remained untainted with other beliefs, 
their morality was the wonder of the world." The 
celebrated Dr. Chalmers says: "It may be suspected 
that although a theology is the minister of peace, it 
cannot be the minister of holiness. 'Now, to those who 
have this suspicion, and who would represent the doc- 
trine of justification by faith — that article, as Luther 

* Eng. Hist. Eighteenth Century, i. 264, 265. 



22 PRESBYTERY 

calls it, of a standing or falling church — as adverse to 
the interests of virtue, I would put one question and 
ask them to resolve it. How comes it that Scotland, 
which, of all the countries of Europe, is the most sig- 
nalized hy the rigid Calvinism of her pulpits, should 
also he the most signalized bv the moral glory that sits 
on the aspect of her general population ? How, in the 
name of mystery, should it happen that such a theology 
as ours is conjoined with perhaps the yet most unvi- 
tiated peasantry among the nations of Christendom? 
The allegation against our churches is, that in the 
argumentation of our abstract and speculative contro- 
versies the people are so little schooled to the perform- 
ance of good works. And how, then, is it that in our 
courts of justice, when compared with the calendars of 
our sister kingdom, there should be so vastly less to do 
with their evil works ? It is certainly a most import- 
ant experience that in that country where there is the 
most of Calvinism there should be the least of crime, 
that what may be called the most doctrinal nation of 
Europe should, at the same time, be the least depraved, 
and that the land wherein people are most deeply im- 
bued with the principles of salvation by grace should 
be the least distempered either by their week-day pro- 
fligacies or their Sabbath profanations."* 

* Sermon, "The Respect due to Antiquity." — Calvinism in 
History, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 23 

The same thing is true all the world over. We may 
examine all the history of Christian people and of re- 
ligious systems, and we will not find any more eminent 
than this for piety and morality. In charity, in liberal- 
ity, in industry, in temperance, in purity of life, it 
stands without a superior — perhaps without an equal. 
To be convinced how it has uniformly raised the moral 
standard of both individuals and communities, exalt- 
ing the sovereignty of God, and emphasizing the 
moral law, we have, in addition to the proofs already 
given, to compare the Waldenses with the other Italians, 
Geneva under Calvin's rule with its condition before or 
since, the English Puritans with the courtiers of Charles 
11. , and finally all the sections of America settled by 
the Puritans and the Presbyterians of Scotland, France, 
and Holland, with those settled by men of other faiths, 
North America with South America. 

Catholicity. 

" The term Catholic indicates the common features 
of Christianity — those characteristics of the religion of 
Jesus Christ which are to be found semper ubique et ab 
omnibus. This universality is not absolute, for there 
are those who bear the Christian name who are not 
Christians at all. It is a general and relative univer- 
sality wherever the true religion of Jesus Christ is 



24 PRESl^YTERY 

found, wherever Christianity as such exists, and in all 
real Christians. 

" The Christian Church, from the earliest times, has 
been troubled by error, heresy, and spurious forms of 
Christianity. Some of these are essential, and destroy 
the marks of the true Church; others are unessential, 
and indicate more or less important variations from 
the true doctrine and practice. We must distinguish 
between Orthodoxy and Catholicity. Orthodoxy re- 
presents the whole sphere of Christian doctrine, 
Catholicity represents only the common features of 
Christianity. The Presbyterian Churches are in this 
respect pre-eminently Catholic. They adhere to all 
the doctrinal achievements of the ancient Church — 
the Catholic doctrines of the Trinity, the Person of 
Christ, and the office of the Holy Spirit. They do not 
adopt the peculiarities of the Greek or the Roman or 
any other branch of the Christian Church, whether in 
doctrine or practice, for these peculiarities are not 
Catholic. Presbyterianism is truest to Catholicity in 
that it insists upon those things which are truly Catho- 
lic, and declines to mingle with those other things 
w^hich are not Catholic."* 

" While Presbyterianism asserts that the Scriptures 
reveal a system of Church government, as well as of 

* American Presbyterianism. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 25 

doctrine, it by no means makes the former of equal 
importance with the latter. Much less in claiming a 
polity of divine ordering does it unchurch those who 
hold different views of ecclesiastical government. 
This principle is distinctly recognized in our Stand- 
ards, wherein it is declared : — 

" ' The visible unity of the body of Christ, though obscured, is not 
destroyed by its division into different denominations of professing 
Christians, but all those who maintain the Word and Sacraments in 
their fundamental integrity are to be recognized as true branches of 
the Church of Christ.' 

" 'The visible Church consists of all those throughout the world 
who profess the true religion, together with their children, and is the 
Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of God.' 

" ' The communion of Saints is to be extended to all those who in 
every place call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.' 

" The Westminster Assembly of Divines was held in 
1643, but in the^ ' Book of Discipline of the Kirk of 
Scotland,' in 1581, it is declared, ' Beside these assem- 
blies there is another more general kind of Assembly 
of the Church of Christ in the world, representing the 
universal Church which is the body of Christ.' There 
is nothing in the system of Presbyterians which war- 
rants intolerance or exclusive claims to covenant mercy. 
They recognize all who are united by faith to Christ as 
members of His mystical body. They admit that as 
one who ' holds the Head' may be a true Christian, not- 
withstanding a defective creed, so a Church may be a 
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26 PRESBYTERY 

Church of Christ, notwithstandiDg a defective organ- 
ization. They do not deny that the ordination of 
ministers may he valid even when it is irregular. 
They receive ministers of other evangelical churches 
into their own without requiring a second ordination, 
just as the Church of England (before the days of 
Laud) received ministers from the Presbyterian 
churches of the Continent for a hundred years after 
the Reformation. 

" The Presbyterian is not a broad Church in the sense 
of sacrificing any cardinal principle for the sake of 
conciliating those to whom it is unpalatable, bat it is 
broad enough to recognize the fact that a true Chris- 
tian unity may exist where there is little outward 
uniformity, and that this unity not only may but must 
exist among all whose lives are hid with Christ in God. 
Cherishing such sentiments as these, they can, therefore, 
without doing any violence to their principles or pre- 
ferences, in the most cordial way, unite with Christians 
of other names in the publication and circulation of the 
Scriptures, they can labor with others in the promotion 
of genuine revivals of religion, they can invite others 
to the Sacramental table, and sit at theirs, and thus, 
while ever ready to defend their orthodox creed and 
Scriptural form of government, they demonstrate their 
regard for the communion of saints, by extending the 
hand of fellowship to ministers of other denominations. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 27 

by laboring witli thera in every good word and work, 
and in rejoicing in the success of all who are toiling to 
advance the Kingdom of Truth and Righteousness in 
the world."* 

Zeal for the Truth. 

The Presbyterian Church has been pre-eminently a 
witnessing and a wrestling Church. She was so in the 
Apostolic period, and has been from the time of her 
restoration among the Alpine mountains by the Lake 
of Geneva, on the sunny plains of France, in Holland 
wrested from the sea, among the hills and glens of 
Scotland, and in the northern provinces of Ireland. 
She has wrestled with flesh and blood, with the prin- 
cipalities and powers of earth, and with spiritual wicked- 
ness in high places. She has borne aloft the banner 
of the Covenant, and raised her voice of testimony 
for God's truth and Christ's kingly crown, both as 
witness and martyr, and has watered the soil of many 
lands with the blood of her sons and danghters. To 
this may be added our Church's ardent love for the 
cause of Missions. In this it is not alone. ]^o Church 
of Christ can forget His command to " disciple all 
nations." But this can be fairly claimed on behalf of 
the Calvinistic Churches — they have been — alike in 
priority and extent of enterprise and devotion — leaders 

* M. B. Hoge, D.D. 



28 ^ PRESBYTERY 

in this great work. They have also excelled in the 
thoroughness of their Mission educational organiza- 
tions, and in the manly and Christian type of character 
they have formed in the converts they have gathered 
of all races and of all lands. 

Education. 

In history, Presbyterian ism and intelligence have 
gone side by side, hand in hand, and this is not an 
accident to be noted simply, but it belongs to the 
philosophy of the history. The doctrine which is 
common to Calvinism and to Protestantism generally, 
that each individual mind may be in direct communi- 
cation with its Creator, that He has revealed His will 
by the written Word to all, must tend to the universal 
diffusion of learning; on the other hand, the doctrine 
that God is a God of order and plan, must tend to 
encourage that higher learning which seeks to discover 
the order and system of the universe. Hence Calvinism 
has been the source, not only of the Common School 
system as it exists in our own country, but of almost 
every one of our earlier colleges and universities, 
notably Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Union, Bowdoin, 
Dartmouth, Rutgers, Dickinson, "Washington and 
Jefferson, Middlebury, Hampden-Sidney, Amherst, 
Lafayette, and Hamilton, not to mention more recent 
enterprises. For generations nearly the entire culti- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 29 

vated mind of the country was under its training and 
stamped with its peculiar impress. With Calvinism 
goes the teacher, with Romanism the priest. The 
three illustrious theological schools which the Calvin- 
ists of France, notwithstanding all their embarrass- 
ments, founded and sustained at Montauban, Saumur, 
and Sedan, as well as the academy of John Calvin, 
established at Geneva, and to which so many of the 
youth of Europe resorted, are well known to fame. 
And no reader of history is ignorant of the fact that 
schoolmasters accompanied the first Presbyterian emi- 
grants to America, that suitable provision was made 
for the education of the young, and that the Tennents 
of the old Log College* on the banks of the Nesham- 
iny, Blair at Fagg's Manor, Smith at Pequea, Finley 
at iS'ottingham, Md., Dodd on Ten Mile Creek in 
Western Pennsylvania, Joseph Smith and Dr. McMil- 
lan in the same region, Patillo, Hall, Wallis, McCorkle, 
and McCaule, in ^orth Carolina, and Doak in Tennes- 
see, were master-workmen in laying the foundations of 
American civilization — laying these foundations in 
sound learning and Calvinistic theology. 

Civil Liberty. 

Modeled after the Israelitish Commonwealth, Pres- 
byterianism is republican in its form and spirit. In its 

* Appendix X. 



30 PRESBYTERY 

heroic struggles in the cause of freedom, and its resist- 
ance to tyrants and tyranny, its record is as changeless 
as the sun in the heavens. James of England, who 
encountered this dauntless and indomitable spirit, 
tersely expressed his judgment of it in the adage, "^o 
bishop, no king," and in the opinion that " Presbytery 
agreeth as well with monarchy as God with the devil," 
which, being interpreted according to the history of the 
period, means, that with Presbyterian bishops there can 
be no tyrannical kings, and that Presbyterianism is 
absolutely inconsistent with despotism of all sorts. 
This feature of Presbyterianism is grounded in its 
conception of man. With it there can be no despotism 
in Church or State, for, according to this conception, 
each soul is of infinite value and dignitj^, and no pre- 
late or king can be lord over another man's conscience. 
The vast influence of Presbyterianism in achieving 
American Independence is well known. " The adhe- 
rents of this system could not come to this country with- 
out bringing along their intense convictions, ingrained 
into their souls by a century of persecution. If Great 
Britain would not yield them a practical independence, 
of necessity they would grasp it. If armed resistance 
was requisite to realize their ideal here, in these remote 
parts of the earth, they unhesitatingly would offer it. 
In place of the cast-off yokes of mediae valism, they 
brought grand conceptions of a moral order and a 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 31 

divine government, drawn from an intelligent study of 
Scripture models, and from the previous experience of an 
inward self-restraint. In them a genuine Christian man- 
hood had taken the place of slavish dependence upon con- 
fessionals and priestly absolution, and they were ready 
to maintain and defend it. And when the crisis came 
not a man of them sullied the past record. Their in- 
stincts led them aright, and no amount of sophistry or 
of logical chicanery could confuse them in their appre- 
hensions of the crisis, and of the issues involved in it. 
Unswayed, undazzled, they maintained the safe middle 
ground between despotism on the one hand and atheis- 
tical anarchy on the other, advocating at all hazards, at 
all times, and by all means, liberty without license, 
authority without tyranny." 

History is full of evidence that, in the resistance of 
the imposition of the mother country upon the colonies, 
" the revolt and revolution," as Mr. Galloway, a promi- 
nent advocate of the government in 1774, expressed it, 
" were mainly ascribable to the action of the Presby- 
terian clergy and laity." The Scotch-Irish met in 
council at Abingdon, Jan. 20, 1775, and prepared an 
address to the Delegates of Virginia, in which they 
said, "We are deliberately and resolutely determined 
never to surrender any of our inestimable privileges to 
any power upon earth but at the expense of our lives." 
Of the Convention at Charlotte, 'N, C, by which the 



32 PRESBYTERY 

31ecklenburg Declaration of Indepemdence was adopted — 
May 20, 1775 — one was a minister of the gospel, nine 
were elders in the Church, and all in some way were 
connected with the seven Presbyterian churches that 
embraced the whole county of Mecklenburg. The 
Presbyterians of Western Pennsylvania, assembled at 
Hanna's Town, May, 1776, declared it to be " the indis- 
pensable duty of every man who has any public virtue 
or love for his country, by every means which God has 
put in his power, to resist and oppose this oppression, and 
as for us, we are ready to oppose it with our lives and 
fortunes." A similar spirit was shown by the Scotch- 
Irish of Cumberland Co., Pa., in a memorial presented 
to the Assembly of the province. May 28, 1776, and by 
the Presbytery of Hanover, in a memorial presented to 
the Legislature of Virginia in 1776. The Synod of 
the Presbyterian Church which met in Philadelphia a 
year before the Declaration of Independence, was the 
veryji7^st body to declare themselves in favor of open 
resistance, and to encourage and counsel their people, 
who were then ready to take up arms. And when the 
General Congress, which was in session in Philadelphia, 
w^as consulting concerning the crisis which the bloody 
conflict at Lexington had precipitated upon the colonies, 
the Synod gave expression to its deep sympathy for the 
cause of freedom, and its religious convictions respect- 
ing the rights of the people. Dr. Witherspoon, the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 33 

only clergyman in the Continental Congress in 1776, 
gave the Presbyterian voice for the Declaration of In- 
dependence, in the memorable utterance : — 

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, a nick of time. 
We perceive it now before us. To hesitate is to con- 
sent to our own slavery. That noble instrument upon 
your table, which ensures immortality to its author, 
should be subscribed this very morning by every pen 
in this house. He that will not respond to its accents 
and strain every nerve to carry into effect its provisions 

is unworthy of the name of freeman For my 

own part, of property I have some, of reputation more. 
That reputation is staked, that property is pledged, on 
the issue of this contest, and although these gray hairs 
must soon descend into the sepulchre, I would infinitely 
rather that they descend thither by the hand of the 
executioner than desert at this crisis the sacred cause 
of my country." 

" The first voice publicly raised in America to dis- 
solve all connection with Great Britain," says Mr. Ban- 
croft, " came, not from the Puritans of l^ew England, 
not from the Dutch of ^N^ew York, not from the planters 
of Virginia, but from the Scotch and Irish Presby- 
terians." " John Calvin," says Ranke, " was virtually 
the founder of America." " In the reign of Mary (of 
England)," says Rufus Choate, " a thousand learned 
artisans fled from the stake at home to the happier 



34 PRESBYTERY 

states of Continental Protestantism. Of these, great 
numbers — I know not liow many — came to Geneva. . . . 
I ascribe to that five years in Geneva an influence which 
has changed the history of the world. I seem to myself 
to trace to it, as an influence on the English character, 
a new theology, new politics, another tone of character, 
the opening of another era of time and liberty. I seem 
to myself to trace to it the great civil war in England, 
the republican constitution framed in the cabin of the 
Mayflower, the divinity (theology) of Jonathan Ed- 
wards, the battle of Bunker Hill, the independence of 
America." 

Similar also is the testimony of Castelar, the eloquent 
Spanish statesman. He says : " The children of the 
Puritans founded the United States, a liberal and 
popular government, where human rights were placed 
above all ideas. .... They harmonized antagonisms 
which seemed eternal, stability with progress, order 
with liberty, true democracy with obedience to the 
law, the widest freedom of different social tendencies 
with a powerful nationality and ardent patriotism, the 
humanitarian with the cosmopolite spirit, indomitable 
independence of the individual with religious respect 

to authority The Anglo-Saxon democracy is the 

product of a severe theology learned by the few Chris- 
tian fugitives in the gloomy cities of Holland and of 
Switzerland, where the morose shade of Calvin still 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 35 

wanders And it remains serenely in its grandeur, 

forming the most dignified, most moral, most enlight- 
ened and richest portion of the human race." 

"The Shorter Catechism," says Dr. A. A. Hodge, 
"fought through successfully the E^evolutionary War." 
" Of the Scotch-Irish race in America," observes Prof 
J. W. Mears, " it is said that it was perhaps the only 
race of all that settled in the western world that never 
produced one Tory. The nearest case to it ever known 
was that of a man who was brought before a Church 
Session in Chambersburg, and tried upon the charge 
that he was not sincere in his professions of his attach- 
ment to the cause of the Revolution. It is claimed 
that General Washington, when making a long and 
disheartening retreat, was asked where he expected to 
pause. He replied that, if he were obliged to cross 
every river and mountain to the limits of civilization, 
he would make his last stand with the Scotch-Irishmen 
of the frontiers, there plant his banner and still fight 
for freedom." 

With such elements and achievements we are pre- 
pared to receive the testimony of great and good men 
in favor of the excellence of the Presbyterian system — 
even those whose judgment is free from the bias of 
attachment to the denomination which it represents. 

" It has," says Mr. Gladstone, " given Presbyterian 
communions the advantages which in civil order belong 



36 PRESBYTERY 

to local self-government and representative institutions 
— orderly habits of mind, respect for adversaries, and 
some of the elements of judicial temper, the develop- 
ment of a genuine individuality, together with the dis- 
couragement of mere arbitrary will and of all eccentric 
tendency, the sense of a common life and the disposi- 
tion energetically to defend it, the love of law, combined 
with the love of freedom, last, but not least, the habit 
of using the faculty of speech with the direct and im- 
mediate view to persuasion." 

And Prof. Dorner, of Berlin, has said: "In its 
manl}^, resolute temper, its energy of action, which 
also expresses itself in strength and energy of thinking, 
its zealous breathing of soul for the increase of God's 
kingdom, its willing self-surrender, and its fortitude of 
pursuit in great and bold designs for the furtherance of 
Christ's reign, it is these qualities that I admire in 
Presbyterianism." 



i 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 37 



CHAPTER 11. 

EARLY PRESBYTERIANISM IN AMERICA — CHURCHES AND 
MINISTERS. 

The early history of the Preshyterian Church in this 
country is involved in no little obscurity, owing prin- 
cipally to the fact that those who originally composed 
it, instead of forming a compact community, were 
widely scattered throughout the different colonies. 

Emigrants arrive in Ne-^v England. 

Bancroft estimates that about twenty-one thousand 
two hundred emigrants arrived in 'New England before 
1640.* Cotton Mather tells us that previous to that 
year four thousand Presbyterians had arrived.f In 
another place, when speaking of the union effected 
between the Congregationalists and Presbyterians in 
London, about the year 1690, he says the same union 
and the same terms had subsisted between these two 
denominations in ^New England, for many decades of 
years, that is, almost from the very first settlement of 

* History of the United States, vol. 1, p. 415. 
t Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 73. 



38 PRESBYTERY 

the conntiy. This mixed character of the people 
seems also to be recognized in the address of Increase 
Mather to King William. He begged him to consider 
that, " in ]^ew England they differ from other planta- 
tions, they are called Congregational and Presbyterian, 
so that such a governor will not suit with the people 
of N^ew England, as may he very proper for other 
English plantations." Of the two thousand Presby- 
terian ministers cast out of the Church of England by 
the Act of Uniformity in 1662, a considerable number, 
it is said, found a refuge in ^ew England.* 

What portion of the four thousand Presbyterians 
referred to by Mather as having come to ^ew England 
before 1640 were from Scotland or Ireland his account 
does not enable us to determine. At a later period a 
hundred families from Ireland settled Londonderry in 
[N'ew Hampshire. They brought with them the Eev. 
James McGregore as their pastor, " who remained with 
them until his death, and his memory is still precious 
among them. He was a wise, faithful and affectionate 
guide to them both in civil and religious concerns." — 
Hodge. 

Rev. Richard Denton. 

The Rev. Richard Denton appeared in this country 
at an early day. He graduated at Cambridge Univer- 

* Holmes's Amer. Ann., vol. 1, p. 384. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 39 

sity in 1623, and then for seven years was the Presby- 
terian minister of Coley Chapel, parish of Halifax, in 
the northern part of England. ''By the intolerant 
spirit of the times which led to the Act of Uniformity, 
he felt compelled to relinquish his charge, and to emi- 
grate to America. This was probably about 1630, and 
in company with John Winthrop and Sir Richard Sal- 
tonstall." The Eev. Mr. Alvord, speaking of the first 
settlers of Hempstead, says: "They were among the 
earliest inhabitants of 'New England, coming, as we 
have seen, through Wethersfield, from "Watertown, in 
Massachusetts, and from that noted company who 
arrived with John Winthrop and Sir Eichard Salton- 
stall." Mr. Denton first came to Watertown, Mass., 
then in 1635 he commenced the settlement of Wethers- 
field, and in 1641 his name appears among the early 
settlers of Stamford, and then in 1644 he is recorded 
as one of the original proprietors of Hempstead, L. I. 
A part of his flock accompanied him from England, and 
also settled with him as their pastor ; the descendants of 
some of them remain there to the present day. Thus a 
Presbyterian Church was established in Hempstead, 
L. I., in 1644. But if, as indicated above, a colony of 
Presbyterians came with him from the old country, and 
follow^ed him till their final settlement on Long Island, 
he, as a Presbyterian minister with a Presbyterian 
colony, the inference can scarcely admit of a doubt that 



40 PRESBYTERY 

he preached to a Presbyterian congregation from their 
first arrival, in 1630, till their permanent settlement on 
the Island. Mr. Denton served the Church till 1659, 
when he returned to England, and spent the latter part 
of his time in Essex, where he died, in 1662, aged 
seventy-six years. 

Mr. Denton had a mind of more than ordinary gifts 
and attainments. He was from the very first noted as 
a man of " leading influence." Rev. Mr. Hey wood, his 
successor in ofiice at Halifax, speaks of him as a " good 
minister of Jesus Christ, and affluent in his worldly 
circumstances." In a report of the Church of I^ew 
IsTetherlands in 1657, by Revs. John Megapolensis and 
Drisnis, to the Classis of Amsterdam, occurs the fol- 
lowing passage : " At Hempstead, about seven Dutch 
miles from here, there are some Independents, also 
many of our persuasion and Presbyterians. They have 
also a Presb^^terian preacher named Richard Denton, 
an honest, pious and learned man." 

Gov. Stuyvesant, in a letter to the people of Hemp- 
stead, under date July 29, 1657, says: "About the 
continuance of Mr. Denton among you we shall use all 
the endeavors we can." Cotton Mather speaks of him 
as " our pious and learned Mr. Richard Denton, a York- 
shire man who, having watered Halifax, in England, 
with his fruitful ministry, was by a tempest hurled 
into Kew England, where his doctrine dropped as the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 41 

rain. Though he were a little man, yet he had a great 
soul. His well-accomplished mind was an Illiad in a 
nutshell. He wrote a system entitled ' Soliloquia 
Sacra,' so accurately describing the fourfold state of 
man that judicious persons who have seen it very much 
lament the Church's being deprived of it."* 

Emigrants from Scotland. 

" During the bloody persecutions which prevailed in 
Scotland, many of her best citizens were banished to 
America. Some of them were transported as felons 
because they would not violate their consciences ; this 
was the only crime alleged against them by their 
accusers. Others fled because they saw no prospect in 
the future that in their native land they would be per- 
mitted to enjoy those modes of worship which they 
believed most in accordance with God's word, while 
still others were attracted to the I^ew World by the 
prospect of improving their temporal affairs, which 
had been impaired or wholly ruined by the fines and 
imprisonments to which they had been subjected. 

"After the disastrous battle of Dunbar (1650), a large 
number of prisoners were sent to the Plantations, as 
they were called, to be sold for slaves. . A like disposi- 
tion was made of many who took part in the Pentland 

* Appendix I. 



42 PRESBYTERY 

risiDg and the battle of Botliwell Bridge. The op- 
pressed congregations also furnished many colonists, 
who, denied all religions freedom at home, fled to this 
country."* 

Settlements in Virginia and Maryland. 

A large number of Presbyterians settled, from the 
years 1670 to 1680, on the Elizabeth River, Virginia, 
and in the lower counties of Maryland, and established 
several churches at least twenty years before the close 
of the century. The settlers on Elizabeth River had 
a minister from Ireland, who died in August, 1683. 

Rev. Francis Doughty. 

The Rev. Erancis Doughty, a Puritan minister, who 
had probably been vicar of Sadbury, Gloucester, Eng- 
land, where he was silenced for non-conformity, emi- 
grated in 1637 to Taunton, Mass., at which place his 
rigid adherence to some peculiarities of Presbyterian 
doctrine brought him into trouble. " He and Richard 
Smith, a ruling elder, and their adherents, were forced 
to exile by the Independents. They found refuge 
among the Dutch. Doughty secured the conveyance of 
Mespat (near Xewtown), L. L, with the view of estab- 
lishing a Presbyterian colony there, "f The settlement 

* Rev. Dr. Craighead. 

t James Riker, Annals of Newtown. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 43 

was begun in 1642, but the Indian war broke up the 
colony in 1643, and the minister and his flock went to 
Manhattan Island for shelter during the war. He be- 
came the first Presbyterian minister in the city of I^ew 
York. He ministered there from 1643-48, and was 
supported by voluntary contributions from the Puri- 
tans and the Dutch of the city. He preached also for 
a while at Flushing, on Long Island. Owing to the 
failure of the colony. Govs. Kieft and Stuyvesant 
sought to recover the claim upon Mespat, but Doughty 
declined, and sought refuge from the wrath of Stuy- 
vesant in the colony of Maryland, where his brother- 
in-law, Captain William Stone, was governor. He 
ministered in Maryland and Virginia until his death, 
preaching here and there to little flocks, which were 
subsequently gathered into the Presbyterian Church, 
when it was organized in Presbyteries and Synods, and 
carrying on his Master's work in spite of diflSculties 
of every kind.* 

Rev. Matthew Hill. 

The work of Doughty was carried on by Eev. Mat- 
thew Hill,t of whom the late and lamented E. F. Hat- 

* American Presbyterlanlsm. 

f He may be said to be the first Presbyterian minister that ever 
sailed upon the Chesapeake. — Dr. Boicen. 



44 PRESBYTERY 

field, in a letter to the editor of the Presbyterian Maga- 
zine^ Sept. 4, 1852, says : — 

" Allow me to call your attention to a fact recorded 
by Rev. Dr. Calamy in his ' N^on-Conformists' Memo- 
rial,' relative to the Rev. Matthew Hill, a native of the 
city of York. He graduated M. A. at Magdalen Col- 
lege, Cambridge, and was settled in the ministry at 
Thirsk, a market-town about twenty miles northwest 
of York. He was ejected for non-conformity by the 
Bartholomew Act, in 1662, and was afterwards em- 
ployed as a chaplain at Gatton, about eighteen miles 
south of London. E'o temptations, though freely 
offered, could induce him to conform. ' Though he 
had a tender constitution,' it is said, ' he determined 
upon a voyage to the West Indies. He embarked with 
little besides a few clothes, a Bible, a Concordance, and 
a small parcel of MSS. He fixed at Charles County, 
Maryland, in 1669, where a brighter scene began to 
open, and he had a prospect of considerable usefulness 
in the ministry, and of a good advantage by his labors 
in temporal respects. But new truths afterwards arose 
which greatly disappointed his hopes." 'Eo other par- 
ticulars are given of his American experience. He is 
described as " a man of ready abilities, a good scholar, 
a serious, warm and lively preacher, and of a free and 
generous spirit. Mr. Hill was, in all probability, a 
Presbyterian."* 

* Appendix II. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 45 

Dr. Calamy thus writes of Mr. Hill : " It may be 
said as truly of him, as of any one of modern times, 
that it was thro' many tribulations that he enter'd 
into the kingdom of God. His whole life was indeed 
a comment upon Prov. xvi. 9, 33. ISTot being allowed 
to serve Grod according to his conscience in his native 
country, he was forced into the remotest parts, where 
Jae laid his bones in a strange land, but with the same 
hope of an happy resurrection unto eternal life, as if 
the same spot of land that brought him forth had also 
entombed him." 

" To Francis Doughty and Matthew Hill, long for- 
gotten worthies," says Dr. Briggs, " the Presbyterian 
Church in the Middle States is indebted for its earliest 
planting. They were the pioneers and martyrs in its 
ministry, and their sufferings and toils were the seed 
of the Church." 

Meeting-Houses on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 

The Presbyterians, already referred to as having 
established themselves on the Eastern Shore of Mary- 
land, had their meeting-houses in Snow Hill, Pitt's 
Creek, Wicomico, Monokin and Rehoboth as early as 
1680. Their application, which is subsequently noticed, 
is the first that is known to have been made to the 
British Churches for a minister. 



46 PRESBYTERY 

Rev. William Traill. 
The Rev. "William Traill, of Scotland, who gradu- 
ated at the University of Edinburgh in 1658, and was 
ordained pastor of the Presbyterian congregation at 
Lifford, in the Presbytery of Laggan, Ireland, in 1672, 
labored at Rehoboth, Maryland, for some years. He 
appears on the minutes of the Presbytery as clerk, and 
seems to have been the most efficient member of the 
body. Di:. Bowen speaks of him as " the incarcerated 
clerk of the Presbytery of Laggan — the brave man 
who had stood before Ormond and the chancellor and 
the archbishop in the castle of Dublin — now sent of 
God to those who are sighing for the bread of life on 
our Eastern shore." Hearing of the success of the 
English Revolution and of the re-establishment of 
Presbytery in Scotland (1688), he returned to his native 
country and became minister of Borthwick, near Edin- 
burgh, Sept. 17, 1690, where he remained until his 
death. May 3, 1714.* 

* Mr. Traill was the eldest son of Robert Traill, minister of Edin- 
burgh. The father "had opposed the schemes of Cromwell, had 
been besieged in the castle of Edinburgh, had been wounded while 
defending the rights of Charles II., and had cooperated zealously 
with the Presbyterians of Scotland in bringing him back to the throne. 
In 1660, when the future course of Charles in forgetting all his 
pledges and his benefactors began to be foreshadowed, Mr. Traill 
committed the grievous offence of writing a respectful address to 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 47 

Arrival of Francis Makemie. 

In 1680 the Irish Presbytery of Laggan heard a 
renewed voice from America,* and one of its licentiates, 
Francis Makemie (of whom a brief sketch is given in 
the next chapter), is sent as a missionary to the western 
world. An enthusiastic admirer of him gives the 
following graphic account of his arrival : — 

" A few days, and stirring news strikes us and goes 
reverberating from plantation to plantation. A sail has 
entered the Pocomoke bringing cargo more precious 
than ever ploughed its waters before. A Presbyterian 

the king, reminding him of his promises and pleading for the rights 
of the Church. For this he and others were thrown into prison. 
From that prison his fellower-sufferer James Guthrie was never re- 
leased until by martyrdom. 

* In December of that year, a letter from Colonel Stevens was 
laid before the Presbytery, requesting that a missionary be sent to 
"the people in Maryland, beside Virginia." 

The tomb of Mr. Stevens is in the orchard of the old Stevens 
plantation, about a mile above Rehoboth. On the heavy slab is the 
following inscription : — 

Here lyeth the body of William Stevens, Esq., who 
departed this Life the 23 of December 1687 Aged 57 
years he was 22 years Judge of this County Court one 
of His Lordship' s Councill and one of ye Deputy 
Lieutenants of this Province of Maryland. 
Vivit Post Funera Virtus. 



48 PRESBYTERY 

minister has arrived from Europe, is at the house of 
Judge Stevens, and will preach next Sabbath. The 
riders along the narrow horse-roads carry the tidings 
everywhere. The boats upon the little rivers bear the 
good news to every landing. Traders at the farm- 
stores forget their purchases and hurry home. "Word 
flies by the county road over to the Annamessex, up to 
the Monokin, there strengthens for further flight, and 
hurries on to the Wicomico. Another rumor starts for 
Accomack, and another for the seaboard. Every Pres- 
byterian plantation is moved as winds from the ocean 
move the fields of silken maize. The arrival of G-eorge 
Fox caused no greater enthusiasm among the Quakers. 

"The holy day has come, the whippoorwills — the 
first, probably, that the new preacher ever heard — 
announcing the dawn w^ith gladness. The Dove 
spreads her canvas and goes down the river. Other 
boats begin to dot thje bosom of the winding Pocomoke. 

" When we draw near the Rehoboth plantation, we see 
colonists arriving from Accomack. The groves are full 

of horses with saddles and pillions Alread}^ are 

the colonists presenting the usual contrasts of riches 
and poverty — of the higher and lower grades of social 
position — some maintaining the pomp and circumstance 
of the gentry of England, others humbly clad and 
excluded from the circle of the great 

" All is expectancy. 'Now the door opens and the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 49 

minister appears, wearing the black Genevan gown and 
the white bands. We recognize the description which 
had preceded him — the intellectual forehead crowned 
with brown locks, the fair complexion, the expressive 
blue eyes, and, over all, the mien of a true Irish gen- 
tleman. This is the pupil of Drummond and Hart and 
Traill — he who in boyhood played, by the shores of 
Lough S willy and who now stands upon the banks of 
our own Pocomoke. This is Francis Makemie. 

" How the ears and hearts of the Scotch and Scotch- 
Irish exiles thrill under the familiar tones of their 
countryman, vibrating with memories of home ! !N'eed 
we wonder if the tears flow while his plaintive accent 
reminds them of martyred pastors over the sea ? 'Nov 
will the most fastidious, in their embroidered velvets 
and Persian silks, find anything to offend the cultured 
ear. In its first utterances to the American Continent, 
Presbytery speaks through an educated ministry. 

"Yonder, too, sit King Daniel of the Pocomokes and 
our friend Matchacoopah. Over to the other side are 
the black-skinned children of Africa, their gaze fixed 
upon Mr. Makemie and listening. I see the preacher's 
eyes again and again resting upon these natives of 
Africa and America. He has never seen either of 
them before. Two mighty race-problems are there 
before him, unsolved. 

"It is pleasant to hear our minister take position 



50 PRESBYTERY 

firmly and emphatically by the Holy Scriptures. The 
American Presbyterian Church is talking of her great 
charter, l^ote his words.* 

" The flutter of the leaves of the old Bibles in the 
hands of our ^N'orth Britons, whenever the minister 
quoted a text, was refreshing to hear and to see. His 
preaching was as full of Scripture as Peter's on the day 
of Pentecost, keeping God's word prominent as au- 
thority for all he said. A man of attractive presence, 
a speaker of considerable oratorical power, his chief 
strength lay in the honor which he placed upon the 
Holy Bible. 

'' Before the sermon the preacher had read and com- 
mented upon the chapter, for he does not practice the 
'dumb reading' common in the ritualistic churches. 
Oh how the old psalm from Rouse swelled out that day 
up and down the banks of the Pocomoke ! That all 
might sing, the minister read it out line by line : — 

" 'By Babel's streams we sat and wept, 

When Sion we thought on. 
In midst thereof we hanged our harps 

The willow- trees upon. 
For there a song required they 

Who did us captive bring ; 
Our spoilers called for mirth, and said, 

' A song of Sion sing.' 

* Appendix IX. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 51 

*' Oh, how the Lord's song shall we sing 
Within a foreign land ? 
If thee, Jerus'lem, I forget, 

Skill part from mj right hand.' 

" The worship continued until after two o'clock and 
did not seem long. . . . After service the judge pre- 
sented us to the minister, saying that we represented 
the various types of Presbyterianism on the Shore, and 
we felt greatly honored." 

Settlement in Ne"wr Jersey. 

In 1685, a handful of Presbyterians, who had suffered 
in the bloody persecutions of Charles II., were shipped 
from Scotland to be sold as slaves in the Colonies. But 
their captain died, and his successor determined to take 
his cargo to Virginia, as likely there to find the best 
market. But a tempestuous voyage drove them into 
Perth Amboy, and being set free by the authorities 
they determined to locate in ITew Jersey. Many of 
them settled in Monmouth County. True to their ex- 
traction and education, they gave immediate attention 
to religious privileges. They formed themselves into 
a church as early as 1692, and probably had built a 
house of worship before that time. They called their 
church Freehold. Among their number was John 
Boyd, who was possibly licensed to preach in Scotland. 



52 PRESBYTERY 

At least lie appears as ministering to that people in 
1706. 

" In 1685," says Dr. Briggs, " George Scot of Pillo- 
cliie. embarked for 'New Jersey with upwards of a 
hundred other Scotsmen and two ministers, Archibald 
Riddell and John Frazer.^ They were allowed to ex- 
change the prisons in which they had been confined on 
account of their fidelity to Presbyterian principles, for 
exile. The voyage was a hard one, and disease carried 
off a great number of passengers, including the leader, 
George Scot, and the wife of Riddell. The remainder 
arrived in safety, and settled at Woodbridge, New 
Jersey. Riddell remained with them as pastor until 
June, 1689, when he returned to Scotland. John 
Frazer removed to Woodbury, Connecticut, and 
preached at Woodbury until the Revolution, when he 
returned to Scotland." 

Presbyterians in Delaware and Virginia. 

Little companies of Scotsmen, driven from home by 
brutal oppression, were scattered through Delaware, and 
along York and Rappahannock, in Virginia. 

Settlement in Carolina. 

Several Scottish noblemen and gentlemen, who had 
been active in their opposition to the prelatic measures 

* Appendix III. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 53 

of their sovereign, and so incurred his displeasure, con- 
ceived the design of providing a home for their perse- 
cuted brethren in America, and in 1682 they contracted 
with the lords proprietors of Carolina for a large landed 
property. In the same State, and previous to the year 
1670, " several hundred able-bodied men formed a set- 
tlement on the west branch of the Ashley River and 
named it Charles' Town." As early as 1662 a company 
of persons driven from Virginia by religious persecu- 
tion settled in Albemarle Sound. 

Rev. Josias Mackie. 

The congregation on the Elizabeth River, Ya., w^as 
supplied by the Rev. Josias Mackie. He probably 
began his ministry in 1691. From the fact of Mr. 
Makemie's directing in his w^ill that his dwelling- 
house and lot on Elizabeth River should be sold, it has 
been inferred that he resided there before he moved to 
the other side of the Chesapeake, and that the Church 
in question w^as gathered by him. Others have sup- 
posed that the congregation was composed of a small 
number of Scotch emigrants whose descendants are still 
to be found in the neighborhood of I^orfolk. In the 
Minutes of the Presbytery of Philadelphia for 1712, 
there is the following record : " A complaint of the 
melancholy circumstances that the Rev. John Machy, 
on Elizabeth River, Ya., labors under, (being made) by 



54 PRESBYTERY 

Mr. Henry, the Presbytery was concerned, and Mr. 
John Hampton saying, he designed to write to him on 
an affair of his own, Presbj^tery desired him to sig- 
nify their regard to, and concern for him."* 

Presbyterians on the Potomac. 

A settlement of Presbyterians was made in 1690, by 
Col. E'inian Beall, who purchased a large tract on the 
Potomac, and drew thither his friends and neighbors 
from Fifeshire. The Rev. I^athaniel Taylor, who was 
probably ordained in Scotland, in 1702 or 1703, came 
immediately to Marlborough, on the Patuxent, and 
took charge of the congregation. 

Presbyterians in Philadelphia. 

In 1698 the Rev. Jedediah Andrews came to Phila- 
delphia, and preached in a building which had been 
used as a store-room by the " Barbadoes Company," on 
the northwest corner of Chestnut and Second Streets. 
He was probably ordained in the Fall of 1701, for his 
" Record of Baptisms and Marriages" begins 1701, 
tenth month, fourteenth day. The exact time of the 
organization of this church is not known, the early 
records having been lost. The records extant date back 
to 1698. 

* Appendix IV. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 55 

Presbyterians in Ne"w York. 

The town of Jamaica on Long Island, 'N. Y., had 
been largely settled by Presbyterians. In 1702 they 
nunibered over a hundred families, " exemplary for all 
Christian knowledge and goodness." In that year the 
town chose Presbyterian churchwardens and vestry- 
men, and settled as their pastor John Hubbard, a native 
of Ipswich, Mass., and a classmate of Andrews, of 
Philadelphia.* 

Other Presbyterian Ministers. 

The only other Presbyterian ministers, in addition to 
those named, known to have been in any besides the 
E'ew England States, at an earlier date than 1706, are 
the minister on Ashley River, near Charleston, S. C, 
to whom Mr. Makemie refers in his letter to Increase 
Mather, of Boston, dated 28th July, 1685 ;t :N'athaniel 
Taylor, at Marlborough, Maryland ; Dugald Simson, 
at Brookhaven, on Long Island, from 1685 to 1691, 
who returned to Scotland, and was, in 1696, a member 
of Lochmaben Presbytery ; Thomas Bridge, who was 
called from Cohanzy, I^. J., to the first church in Bos- 
ton, in 1704 ; Mr. Black, who labored in West Jersey 
and Lewes, Delaware ; John Wilson, at Newcastle, and 
Samuel Davis, also in Delaware. 

* Appendix I. f Appendix VIII. 



56 PRESBYTERY 



CHAPTER III. 

FORMATION OF THE PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA — 
SKETCHES OF ITS ORIGINAL MEMBERS. 

The Eagle "Wing. 

One of the first attempts to plant the Presbyterian 
Cliurch in America was unsuccessful. As early as 1634, 
when the territory along the banks of the Merrimac 
E-iver, Connecticut, was being taken up by colonists, the 
persecuted Scotch Presbyterians, of the jSTorth of Ireland, 
were invited to settle there, by the Governor and 
Council of !N'ew EnHand. 

Having accepted the invitation, the deposition of 
their ministers, which took place August 12, 1636, 
hastened the preparations for emigration, and on the 
9th of the following September, the Eagle Wing^ a 
vessel of one hundred and fifty tons, set sail from Lock- 
fergus v/ith one hundred and forty emigrants prepared 
for the voyage, and a settlement in a new country. 
Among the emigrants were four noted preachers, Robert 
Mair, John Livingstone, James Hamilton, and John Mc 
Clelland. The ship soon after grounded on the coast of 
Scotland. The leaders being undaunted, they started 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 57 

again. Off the coast of Newfoundland they encountered 
a hurricane, the ship sprung a leak, and they finally 
decided to give up the voyage. As Mather says: 
" meeting with manifold crosses,being half-seas through, 
they gave over their intendments."* 

These ministers recovered courage, privately taught 
in Irish neighborhoods, or openly preached in Scottish 
pulpits, and thus helped to rear a church which would 
send many of her sons hither as the founders of Pres- 
byterianism in America. 

Francis Makemie. 

One of the missionaries just referred to was Francis 
Makemie, evidently a " Scotch-Irishman," born (we 
know not when) at Rathmelton in Donegal, a student 
at one of the Scottish universities, a licentiate of the 
Presbytery of Laggan in 1681, and ordained by it in 
1682. In 1683 he removed to America, going, as seems 
probable, first to Snow Hill, Maryland. " It is probable 

* The saintly Rutherford wrote, in 163 7, to John Stuart, Provost 
of Ayr: " I would not have you think it strange that your journey 
to New England has got such a dash. It hath, indeed, made my 
heart heavy, but I know that it is no dumb providence, but a speak- 
ing one whereby the Lord speaks his mind to you, though for the 
present ye do not well understand what he saith. However it be, 
He that sitteth on the floods hath shown you his marvellous kindness 

in the great depths Let me hear from you, for I am anxious 

what to do. If I saw a call for New England, I would follow it." 
5 



58 PRESBYTERY 

that he was inclined thereunto by William Traill, who 
was moderator of the last meeting of the Presbytery, 
July 21, 1681, and who was its most influential mem- 
ber, and who went thither himself."^ Makemie gives 
an account of his ordination in his Answer to Keith's 
Libel against a Catechism published by Francis Makemie^ 
Boston, 1694, p. 24. " Ere I received the imposition 
of hands in that Scriptural and orderly separation unto 
my holy and ministerial calling, that I gave requiring 
satisfaction to godly, learned, and judicious, discerning 
men, of a work of grace and conversion wrought in my 
heart at fifteen years of age, by and from the pains of 
a godly schoolmaster, who used no small diligence in 
gaining tender souls to God's service and fear." 

Mr. Makemie did not settle permanently in this 
country for some years, but preached as an itinerant. 
" He did not remain in Accomac, but in August, 1692, 
went to Philadelphia, and soon after removed to the 
Barbadoes, where he engaged in business, and was 
pastor of a church for several years until the spring of 
1698. August 15, 1699, he produced at the Accomac 
court certificates of his qualification to preach from 
Barbadoes, and was thereupon licensed to preach in 
his own dwelling-house in Pocomoke, near the Mary- 
land line, and at Onancock, five miles from Drum- 

* See p. 46. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 59 

mondton, or the house next to Jonathan Liveseys. 
The church of Snow Hill, Maryland, and four others 
in the vicinity, were soon after organized, and enjoyed 
his ministry for some years." " Here," says Dr. Gillett, 
" in the narrow neck of land between the Chesapeake 
and the ocean, sheltered by the mild laws of a colony 
founded by a Roman Catholic nobleman, the Presby- 
terian Church of America began its existence." 

"It is probable, indeed," adds Dr. Gillett, " that other 
Presbyterian congregations had been gathered before 
this in other localities. But their condition must have 
been far from promising, and rarely could they have 
enjoyed the ordinances of the sanctuary. The popula- 
tion was sparse, and there were no ' towns.' Makemie 
notices it as ' an unaccountable humor' that no attempts 
were made to build them. The people were scattered 
like sheep in the wilderness, and a large portion of his 
labor was to search them out. Soon after he had 
commenced his ministry in Maryland, he found on 
Elizabeth River in Virginia, ' a poor desolate people, 
mourning the loss of their dissenting minister from 
Ireland,' who had been removed by death the summer 
previous. It was not long before quite a number of 
congregations were gathered in the region which he 
had selected as his field of labor. An itinerant mis- 
sionary, and in reality the bishop of a primitive diocese, 
he journeyed from place to place, sometimes on the 



60 PRESBYTERY 

Eastern Shore of Maryland, sometimes in Virginia, 
and sometimes extending his journeys as far as South 
Carolina. To the extent of his ability he supplied the 
feeble churches, but he deeply felt the need of others to 
assist him. To obtain these was an object of para- 
mount importance, and he spared no effort to attain it. 
With this end in view, he corresponded with ministers 
in London and in Boston. Eut he was not content with 
this. He broke away — we may be sure at a great sac- 
rifice — from the pressing calls around him, that he 
might personally urge his appeals. He crossed the 
ocean, and applied to the Independent and Presbyterian 
ministers of London for aid. He visited ISTew England 
and consulted with Mather. Indefatigable in effort, 
clear-sighted and sagacious in his views, liberal in sen- 
timent, fearless in the discharge of duty, and shrinking 
from no burden, his name needs no eulogy beyond the 
simple record of what he accomplished and endured." 

Makemie's Visit to England. 

During Mr. Makemie's visit to England, he pre- 
vailed with the ministers of London to undertake the 
support of two itinerants for two years, and, after that 
time, to send two more on the same condition, allowing 
the former, after the term of their itinerancy had ex- 
pired, to settle ; but, unfortunately, the latter part of 
this ensragement was not fulfilled. He returned in the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 61 

Fall of 1705, accompanied by the Rev. John Hampton 
and George Macnish, and, it it is not unlikely, by Mr. 
John Boyd, a probationer. 

Makemie's Zeal. 

Mr. Makemie and his young " assistants" had to con- 
tend with various obstructions in prosecuting their great 
work, but these did not prevent him pushing forward 
his plan for a thorough organization of the Presbyte- 
rian system in America. With such aid as he has re- 
ceived from the labors of Traill, Davis, Thomas Wil- 
son, John Wilson, Josias Mackie, Andrews, and 'Nsl- 
thaniel Taylor, " he has hoped to see the blessed results 
of long years of waiting moulded and compacted for 
future enlargement. Our churches have been without 
any central bond of union. There has been too little 
to distinguish them from the Independency which Mr. 
Makemie does not approve. Kind and tolerant to all 
who hold the fundamentals of Christianity, he loves 
Presbyterianism, and wishes to see it established upon 
its own distinctive basis." Andrews was in full sym- 
pathy with Makemie, and the Presbytery was the 
result of their co-operative councils. 

Choice of Place for the Presbytery. 

There were several good reasons for selecting Phila- 
delphia as the place for the formation of the Presby- 
tery. For, although George Keith, the Quaker convert 



62 PRESBYTERY 

to Episcopacy, liad written in 1703, " They have here 
a Presbyterian meeting and minister, one called An- 
drews, but they are not like to increase here," yet 
Andrews was so much encouraged that, in 1705, Talbot, 
an Episcopal missionary, wrote: "There is a new 
meeting-house built for Andrews, and almost finished 
. . . which, I am afraid, will draw away great 
part of the Church, if there be not the greatest care 
taken of it." Besides, Philadelphia was central; it 
was located in the nearest colony where perfect reli- 
gious freedom was enjoyed, and there was good reason 
to hope that the influence of the Presbytery, if there 
organized, would gradually reach those churches in the 
Jerseys, on Long Island, and perhaps in ^ew England, 
where there was a strong Presbyterian sentiment, and 
finally bring them into union with the new organiza- 
tion. 

First Meeting of Presbytery. 
The First Presbytery, organized, in all probability, 
in the "new meeting-house" above referred to, con- 
sisted of seven ministers, viz : — 

Francis Makemie, 

John Hampton, 

George Macnish, 

Samuel Davis, 

John "Wilson, 

Frederick Andrews, 

;N'athaniel Taylor. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 63 

In looking at this small number of Grod's minister- 
ing servants gathered in the retired and humble room 
which they occupied, and surrounded with the various 
antagonistic influences with which they had to con- 
tend, as well as at the glorious results which their 
incipient work was destined to reach, we are reminded 
of the desire of I^ehemiah and of Ezra to rear the 
temple of God. We recollect the vaunting and the 
taunting language which was employed by those hos- 
tile to their design, in order to put a stop to the build- 
ing of this temple, as, for instance, when Sanballat and 
the Ammonites and others came and said, "What do 
these feeble Jews? Will they fortify themselves? 
Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? 
Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rub- 
bish which are burnt?" And they said that " If a fox 
went up, he should even break down their stone wall ;" 
and they not only had- recourse to taunts, but they 
employed the whole strength of their influence, the 
whole power of deception and deceit, to repress the 
progress of that glorious edifice, to discourage the 
hearts and to weaken the hands of the faithful band 
who were engaged in building it. But, instead of their 
vain efforts being crowned with success, the reverse, as 
the history assures, was the fact; all their machina- 
tions were quashed, their energies were blasted, their 
schemes exploded, their blows recoiled upon them- 



64 PRESBYTERY 

selves, and despite the opposition and conflicting ele- 
ments with which it was surrounded, that temple rose 
from earth to heaven, as our American Presbyterian 
Church shows itself destined to do, until beholding 
angels and delighted men burst forth into the glorious 
and crowning shout, "Grace, grace unto it." 

The first page of the record of the first meeting ot 
the Presbytery has been lost. The first fully recorded 
meeting is that at Freehold, for the ordination of Mr. 
John Boyd, December the 29th, 1706. Of the mem- 
bers of the first Presbytery only three were pastors; 
the other four were missionaries. In a letter from Mr. 
Makemie to Dr. Benjamin Col man, of Boston, March 
28, 1707, he states as one of the objects of the Presby- 
tery, at its annual meeting, "the improvement of our 
ministerial abilities, by prescribing texts to be preached 
on by two of our number at every meeting, which per- 
formance is subject to the censure of our brethren ; our 
subject' is Paul's epistle to the Hebrews;" and then 
adds, "I and another began and performed our parts on 
verses 1 and 2. The 3d is presented to Mr. Andrews 
and another." This letter, by the way, enables us to 
^x the date of the first meeting of the Presbytery in 
the Spring of 1706. 

Design of Presbytery. 

In referring to the design of Presbytery, as stated 
in Makemie's letter to Dr. Colman, Dr. Briggs ob- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 65 

serves : " This was a noble design. A generous, catholic 
spirit animated the Fathers of the Presbytery. They 
organized an institution which was a rallyiug-point for 
Presbyterianism in the Middle States. It enabled them 
to license and ordain their own ministers in a regular 
manner; it enabled them to co-operate with the organ- 
ized forces of Puritanism and Presbyterianism in all 
parts of the world; it was a master-stroke of wise 
policy which now gave Presbyterianism an advantage 
over episcopacy, in spite of the strong influences and 
active oppression by the authorities in Church and State. 
" The only effective barrier to an American Presbytery 
was an American Bishopric, which the Episcopal mis- 
sionaries were wise enough to discern, and which the 
Society and its friends were earnest enough to advocate, 
but political considerations prevented for a long time the 
erection of American Bishoprics. The whole body ot 
Puritans and Presbyterians of 'New England and Great 
Britain were determined to resist the introduction of 
bishops into America. They feared lest these might 
use all the authority of the crown to destroy Puritan- 
ism and establish Prelacy." 

Character of First Ministerial Members of Presbytery. 

In relation to the character of the ministers of which 
the Presbytery was at first composed, Mr. Hazard, in 
his MS. History, says, " It is probable that all, except 



66 PRESBYTERY 

Mr. Andrews, were foreigners by birth, and that they 
were ordained to the gospel ministry in Scotland and 
Ireland." " The correctness of this statement," observes 
Dr. Hodge, " can be proved by documentary evidence 
in regard to most of these gentlemen, and by the 
strongest circumstantial evidence with regard to the 
others." He then proceeds to furnish such proof, add- 
ing, " As far as the character of the body may be in- 
ferred from that of its founders, it was a purely Presby- 
terian Church from the beginning. It was not founded 
upon Congregationalism nor by Congregationalists. It 
was founded by Presbyterians, and upon Presbyterian 
principles, and those who subsequently joined it, joined 
it as a Presbyterian body. Mr. Andrews was the only 
minister from 'New England who had any permanent 
connection with the church before 1715, and he, so far 
from being a Congregationalist, was an ' old side' 
Presbyterian." 

Description of Presbytery. 

Dr. Bowen thus describes the formation of the Pres- 
bytery :— 

" We recall G-eorge Keith's prophecy of three years 
ago : ' They have a Presbyterian meeting and minister, 
one called Andrews, but they are not like to increase.' 
Would it not astonish the prophet to see, before three 
years have passed, that new Church on High Street 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 67 

(now Market), a goodly congregation assembled, and 
the vigorous young Presbytery in session ? There our 
ministers meet and organize and deliberate upon the 
interests of Christ's kingdom on this vast continent. 
Widely to the north and south and west the thinly- 
populated country and its unexplored regions stretch 
away, while here at the gate stands this heroic band, 
sending forth our Scriptural system of doctrine and of 
Church government to the I^ew World and the new 
century. Prelacy looks on from one side, prognosticat- 
ing failure, Quakerism looks on from the other, averring 
that it is only of men and Babylonish. There sits Mr. 
Makemie in the moderator's chair, rejoicing in the final 
fulfilment of hope long deferred, triumphant at last. 
Here, successfully planted, is a primitive Presbytery 
composed of primitive bishops. 

" When Presbytery adjourns, it is with the under- 
standing that the moderator and Mr. Hampton and 
Mr. Andrews meet in Freehold in the Jerseys for 
the purpose of examining and ordaining the candi- 
date, Mr. John Boyd. The arrangement suits our 
ministers very well, as Mr. Makemie and Mr. Hampton 
are expecting to make a journey to 'New York, and 
probably to Boston. It will give our organizer an 
opportunity to confer w^ith the Dissenters along the 
way and learn what suitable material may be found 
ready for moulding into the Presbytery now estab- 



68 PRESBYTERY 

lished. His broad plans comprise all the colonies, and 
why should not the same comprehensive management 
which has succeeded in bringing Virginia, Maryland, 
and Pennsylvania under this one court of the Lord be 
able to include the other provinces ? 

" During the Christmas holidays the three ministers 
meet at Freehold — a village full of memories of the 
dark days of Scotland's agonies. Mr. Walter Ker, 
banished from his native land in 1685, is still there, 
and can talk with Mr. Makemie of the times of perse- 
cution in Lamarkshire, aggravated by the malignant 
curate Joseph Clelland, then as zealous against Presby- 
terians as the Somerset rectors of to-day. There too 
he will meet with John Foreman, John Henderson, 
John Foord, and other sturdy old exiles. I^ot to be 
satisfied with any but the purest Presbyterianism, as 
soon as Presbytery is formed they look at once to this 
authoritative court for a minister. 

" For a long while immigration to East Jersey has 
been largely from ^N'ew England. These Independents 
preponderating in numbers, all compromises between 
Presbyterianism and Independency have necessarily 
inclined to the advantage of the latter. Thus most of 
the congregations have been formed. But these Scotch- 
men have as positive grounds for opposition to Inde- 
pendency as to Prelacy. We learn that the probationer 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 69 

Boyd is a Scotchman. (Hodge, p. 78, name of cliarch, 
p. 71.) 

*'In the Church known as 'The Scotch Meeting- 
House' they proceed to ' the trials' of the young man. 
Those of us who know the moderator can have no 
doubt of the thoroughness of the work. The subject 
assigned as the ' common head' — De regimine EcclesicB 
— seems very appropriate at this juncture, when the 
government of our American Church is assuming its 
permanent form. Again we seem to see in it the hand 
of Mr. Makemie. Twenty-five years ago, when the 
Presbytery of Laggan was selecting subjects for him- 
self and Mr. Alexander Marshall, De regimine Ecclesioe 
contra Erastianos was the one assigned to the latter. 
America is no less interested in such questions to-day 
than Ireland was then. 

>" On Friday, Mr. Boyd preaches from the twelfth 
verse of the first chapter of John : ' For as many as 
received him, to them gave he power to become the 
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.' 
He defends his thesis presented in the morning, is ex- 
amined upon the languages, and is questioned by the 
brethren as they think fit. All his parts of trial are 
sustained, and his ordination is appointed for the ap- 
proaching Sabbath, the 29th. 

" We can imagine the enthusiastic assembling of the 
people from the town and the country around on God's 



70 PKESBYTERY 

holy day to hear the sermons and witness the cere- 
monies. When Cornbury came into power over this 
colony, four years ago, he ordered that the Prayer- 
Book be used in the churches, that the sacraments be 
administered only by persons episcopally ordained, and 
that all ministers without ordination of that sort report 
themselves to the Bishop of London. (Webster, p. 88.) 
I do not think that Mr. Boyd is likely to report to that 
high functionary for apostolic virtue, appreciating far 
higher than anything the bishop can confer, the laying 
on of the hands of the Presbytery in true apostolic 
form and the certificate of ordination which they give 
him on Monday. The indignation of the governor may 
be expected. Cornbury might himself have learned 
something valuable from our young minister's common 
head, De regimine Ecdesioe. 

"So goes out the eventful year 1706, wearing in its 
last days as a coronal the first purely Presbyterian 
ordination in the Kew World." 

Second Meeting of Presbytery. 

The meetings of the Presbytery were annual. The 
second w^as at Philadelphia, March 22, 1707. Four 
ministers, with their elders, were present. The minis- 
ters are ranged according to seniority, but the elders 
according to their position in society, or their age. 
Wilson is first on the roll, and his elder, John Gardner, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 71 

is third ; Andrews is second, and his elder, Joseph Yard, 
is first ; Taylor is third, and his elder, William Smith, 
is second, while Macnish and his elder, James Stod- 
dard, stand side by side. Wilson was chosen mode- 
rator by a plurality of votes, and Macnish clerk. It 
being Saturday, they adjourned till Tuesday, at 4 P. M., 
after having refused to accept the excuse Davis had 
sent by letter for his absence from the meeting. On 
Tuesday, Makemie, Hampton, and Boyd appeared, and 
the meeting was opened by Makemie and Wilson with 
discourses on the first and second verses of the Epistle 
to the Hebrews, as appointed at the meeting of the 
last year."^ Wilson wrote requiring Davis to attend 
the next meeting ; Hampton gave reasons for not 
accepting, at this time, the call to Snow Hill, now 
tendered to him, and it was left in his hands ; Taylor 
wrote to the people to encourage their efforts for a 
settled minister among them, and Andrews and Boyd 
were appointed a committee to prepare overtures for 
the propagating of religion in the congregations. 
Thus the enactments of the youthful Presbytery are 
already not simply ordinary, but authoritative. 

* These were by way of exercise and addition, and were approved. 
After the Restoration, the Scottish bishops modelled their Synods 
after the Presbyterian custom, and appointed a committee called 
" The Brethren of the Exercise," to arrange religious exercises during 
the session. — Webster. 



72 PEESBYTERY 

Sketches of Original Members. 
A brief notice of the original members of the Pres- 
bytery is required at once by a just regard for their 
memory, and a grateful appreciation of the benefit of 
their earnest and unwearied labors which we enjoy. 

Makemie. 

We add to what has already been said of Mr. 
Makemie, that, after the service he rendered in assist- 
ing in the formation of the Presbytery, he continued 
actively and usefully engaged in missionary tours 
among the destitute settlers, in gathering congregations 
and furnishing them with competent ministers. In 
1707 he and his fellow-laborer, the Rev. John Hampton, 
stopped a few days in l^ew York, on their way to 
'New England. Lord Cornbury,* the Deputy Gov- 
ernor, who had no respect for the Act of Toleration, 
forbade the use of the Dutch Church to Mr. Makemie, 
whose friends secured him a private house. There he 
preached "in as public a manner as possible, with open 
doors. "f Mr. Hampton was granted a church by the 

* Lord Cornbury was a cousin of Queen Anne, and a grandson of 
the famous Earl of Clarendon, the unreliable historian and apologist of 
Stuart and Laudian tyranny. Openly immoral, bankrupt in property 
and reputation in England, flying from his creditors across the sea, 
made Governor of New York and New Jersey, this outlawed spend- 
thrift seemed ambitious to prove himself the patron of the Church- 
men, and they were glad to use him. 

t Appendix V. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 73 

people of IS^ewtown, on Long Island. They were 
arrested. In the presence of Lord Cornburj, Mr. 
Makemie argued that the Toleration Act extended to 
all the colonies, and that the license taken in Virginia 
was good in ^ew York. The answer was, " You are 
strolling preachers ; you shall not spread your perni- 
cious doctrines here." "As to our doctrines," said Mr. 
Makemie, with admirable dignity, " we have our Con- 
fession of Faith, which is known to the Christian 
world, and I challenge all the clergy of ;N"ew York to 
show us any false or pernicious doctrines therein. We 
are able to prove that its doctrinal articles agree with 
those of the Church of England." " But these articles," 
replied the Governor, "you have not signed." "As to 
the Articles of JReligion,'' said Mr. Makemie, " I have a 
copy in ray pocket, and am ready at all times to 
sign, ivith those exceptions specified in the law.'" But all 
argument was vain. The accused were sent to jail, 
where they continued nearly two months. At the end 
of that time they were brought before the Chief Justice, 
who had been absent at the time of their imprison- 
ment, by a writ of habeas corpus, and admitted to bail, 
though no bill was found by the Gi-and Jury against 
Mr. Hampton, as he had not preached in the city, and 
he was therefore discharged. In June following, Mr. 
Makemie returned from Virginia to 'New York, to 
stand his trial. The result of it was an acquittal by 



74 PRESBYTERY 

the jury. But the Court would not discharge him 
from his recognizance till they had obliged him to pay 
all the fees of his prosecution, which, together with his 
expenses, amounted to little less than three hundred 
dollars. This injustice was soon denounced by the 
Legislature. He preached in the French Church, and 
narrowly escaped arrest in [N'ew Jersey. At Boston 
he published the sermon which caused his imprison- 
ment. One of the texts was: " We ought to obey God 
rather than man." 

Even after this, Mr. Makemie was not left unmo- 
lested. He narrowly escaped a second prosecution, 
based, if possible, on even weaker grounds than the 
first. A strange intolerance pursued him, as a chief 
offender, but the object was to obstruct the preaching 
of all Presbyterian ministers. The Dutch and other 
Dissenters neither asked nor would receive a license, 
yet they were not disturbed. But any attempt of 
Presbyterian ministers to extend their Church was 
seriously obstructed. There is also evidence that I:^ew 
York was not the only province in which Mr. Makemie 
had to encounter grave and severe intolerance. His 
preaching, far and wide, drew on him the anger of the 
Virginia clergy, and he was seized and carried to the 
Governor at Williamsburg, but his noble vindication 
obtained for him the Governor's license to preach 
throughout the Old Dominion: and as a result, it is 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 75 

thought, of his argument, the Virginia Legislature 
entered, April 15th, 1699, the Act of Toleration on 
their Statute-book. 

It must be added that in the Carolinas also Presby- 
terians were made to feel the edge of intolerant legis- 
lation. " During the troublous period from the Resto- 
ration to the Revolution (1660-1688), they had sought 
a shelter from persecution in a colony in which civil 
and relio-ious rie-hts were solemnlv o-uaranteed to them. 
They had increased in numbers, and amounted in South 
Carolina to several thousands. But, in 1703, by 
methods that savored of the brutality of Jeffreys and 
the bigotry of James II., the Episcopal was made by 
law the established Church. Dissenters of all classes 
were taxed for its support, and those who did not con- 
form were disfranchised. They who had left England 
for freedom of conscience were pursued by English 
intolerance across the ocean, and, in spite of their ear- 
nest remonstrance and appeal to Parliament, the yoke 
was fastened to their necks, and they were politically 
and socially degraded by a legislature which, to prop 
up Episcopacy, violated the solemn pledge in the faith 
of which they had become exiles from their native 
land. 

" Thus amid scenes of intolerance and persecution the 
Presbyterian Church in this country commenced its 
career. But it soon manifested, in the persons of its 



76 PRESBYTERY 

adherents, a vital energy that was to overbear obnoxious 
statutes and tyrannic legislation. The treatment which 
Mr. Makemie, Hubbard, Hampton, Macnish, and others 
experienced at the hands of royal governors or servile 
judges, fitly links the history of American Presby- 
terianism with the memories of the English, Irish, and 
Scotch Dissenters under the reigns of the Stuarts." 

Dr. Howe, in his "History of the Presbyterian 
Church in South Carolina," referring to a letter written 
by Mr. Makemie from Elizabeth Piver, Virginia, July 
22, 1684, and to another of the date of July 28, 1685,* 
says: "From this evidence it appears that serious 
thoughts had been entertained by Makemie of settling 
at Charles-Town. Webster says ' he visited Carolina 
in the Fall of 1683.' In his determination to settle 
elsewhere, the new colony of South Carolina lost the 
services of one of the most active ministers of the Pres- 
byterian Church, one who by Peid is said, though not 
with entire truth, to be the first Presbyterian minister 
who settled in [N'orth America, and one who, more than 
any other, has been regarded its founder." 

Makemie' s Death. 

Mr. Makemie died at his residence in Virginia, in 

\ the Summer of 1708, leaving a widow and two daughters. 

He was buried on the plantation where his happy wed- 

* Appendix YIII. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 77 

ded years had been spent — the Anderson property 
which looks out to the " mother of waters." His grave 
has been identified. " We know," says Dr. Bowen, 
" where our Makemie sleeps. ' Committing my body 
to ye dust decently to be interred,' but now, alas, the 
sacrilege and the desecration ! It cannot hurt him. So 
sleeps the dust of John Calvin, under almost equal 
neglect." 

Mr. Makemie made liberal bequests to charitable ob- 
jects, and distributed his valuable library among his 
family, and two or three other friends. An original 
portrait of him was destroyed in the burning of the 
house of the Rev. Dr. Balch, of Georgetown, D. C* 
" His influence," says a vigorous writer, " in the 
region in which he chiefly exercised his ministry was 
extensive and powerful. In that peninsula where he 
was most at home, we still find ' Makemie's churches.' 
They are his eulogy. If he had travelled up the Chesa- 
peake Bay and the Susquehanna River to Harrisburg, 
thence to E'ew York, and thence along the coast back 
to his house, he would have measured the triangle in 
which Presbyterianism was then flourishing. Within 
those limits the pioneer was soon followed by the edu- 
cator and the theologian, for whom he had prepared 

'* What a warning to the owners of such valuable treasures to 
deposit them in the fire-proof rooms of the Presbyterian Historical 
Society ! 



78 PRESBYTERY 

the way with his zeal, diligence, wisdom, piety, and 
generous spirit. Without sectarianism, he loved his 
church." The Eev. Dr. Samuel Miller, upon the autho- 
rity of some venerable men of the generation imme- 
diately succeeding him, speaks of him as "a man of 
eminent piety and strong intellectual powers, adding to 
force of talent, a fascinating address, and being con- 
spicuous for his natural endowments, and his dignity 
and faithfulness as a minister of the gospel." 

Dr. Sprague says of Mr. Makemie, " His great dis- 
tinction is, that he was undoubtedly the first regular 
and thorough Presbyterian minister in this country, 
and he may justly be regarded as the father of the 
(American) Presbyterian Church." According to Dr. 
Gillett, " The man to whom the honor of laying the 
foundationsof the Presbyterian Church, as an organized 
body, in this country, belongs is Francis Makemie." 

Hampton. 

John Hampton was probably the son of William 
Hampton of Burt, in the Presbytery of Laggan, Ire- 
land, for that Presbytery, on Sept. 27, 1692, resolved to 
give some help to Mr. John Hampton, at the school, 
and Oct. 30, 1694, they resolved that " as soon as he 
shall go to college, they will allow him £10 per annum 
during the time of his stay there." He is entered at 
the University of Glasgow, March 9, 1696, in the third 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 79 

class in Hibernus. His migration to America, in com- 
pany with Mr. Makemie on his return from England, 
has been already mentioned. Lord Cornbury speaks of 
him as " a young Presbyterian minister lately come to 
settle in Maryland." His arrest and imprisonment for 
preaching in 'New York are noticed in the preceding 
sketch of Mr. Makemie. He was called to Snow Hill, 
Maryland, in March, 1707, the salary to be paid in 
tobacco. He was " inaugurated" by Mr. Macnish. He 
also served Pitt's Creek. He was long in feeble health, 
and visited his native country in 1717 for his recovery, 
and the Synod, in the following Fall, accepted his resig- 
nation of the pastoral care of his people, because he 
could not perform his duty to them " without apparent 
hazard of his life, through bodily indisposition." He 
died in 1721. 

Macnish. 

George Macnish was a native of Scotland. He is en- 
tered at the University of Glasgow in the third class, 
March 1, 1698. The students from Scotland have no 
nationality given. There can be no doubt, therefore, 
that Mr. Macnish was a Scotsman. After coming to 
this country in 1705 with Mr. Makemie, he labored for 
a short time among the people of Monokin and Wico- 
mico, in Maryland, but, it appears, was not settled as their 
pastor. In 1710 he was the Moderator of the Presby- 



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terj. In this year he settled at Jamaica, Long Island, 
where he was instrumental in forming, 1717, the Pres- 
bytery of Long Island. In 1716 Mr. Macnish was 
again Moderator of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and 
consequently preached the Synodical Sermon at the 
first meeting of the Synod of Philadelphia, in 1717. 
The same year he was deputed by the Synod to act as 
its representative abroad, for the promotion of religion 
in this country. This visit, however, he did not make, 
but the appointment and other important service as- 
signed him prove that he was a leading and influential 
minister, and enjoyed, in no small degree, the confidence 
of his brethren. In 1723 the Synod recorded its " great 
grief" at the decease of Mr. Macnish. In the Church 
Register of ^N'ewtown it is stated that he died March 10, 
1722. His remains were buried in the Jamaica Cemetery. 

Davis. 

Samuel Davis is believed to have been from Ireland. 
He was next to Mr. Makemie in point of years, and, 
like him, engaged in business. We find him recorded 
in court, in Somerset County, Maryland, February 
26, 1684, as performing a marriage ceremony, and on 
August 12, 1691, as receiving a legacy by the will 
of John Galbreath, as " minister at Snow Hill." He 
resided at Lewes, Delaware, as early as 1692. He was 
Moderator of the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1709. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 81 

"At the formation of the Presbytery," says Webster, 
" he was prevented by business from performing the 
duties of a pastor, and, on the failure of the people of 
Lewes to obtain Mr. Golden from Scotland, he con- 
tinued to supply them as much as the condition and 
posture of his affairs allowed.* In 1715 he joined with 
them in their request to Presbytery to have a minister 
settled over them. On Hampton's resignation of his 
charge, he removed to Snow Hill, and preached there 
probably till his death, in the summer of 1725." 

Wilson. 

John AVilson arrived in this country in 1686. As early 
as 1702, he preached in the Court-House, at 'New Castle, 
Delaware, but, becoming dissatisfied, removed. After 
a brief absence he returned. He had no pastoral rela- 
tion to that congregation. In 1708, he was directed by 
Presbytery to preach alternately on the Sabbath at 
New Castle and White Clay, and monthly on a week- 

* In a letter of Thomas Crawford to Rev. Mr. Stubbs, April 8, 
1706, from Dover Hundred, he says: " Sir, I was invited by the 
gentlemen of the west county (viz. Sussex), and upon their desire I 
went and preached at one Captain Hill's house, then at Lewistown, 
and on a third time in another place, and I found them all in general 
inclined to the Church (tho' an Irish Presbyterian has preached there 
some years), and after conversation with them they joined in an ad- 
dress to my Lord of London for a minister." (Perry, Hist. Coll.) 
"The Irish Presbyterian referred to," says Dr. Briggs, "seems to 
be Davis." 



82 PRESBYTERY 

day, and quarterly and Sabbath, at Apoquinimy. In 
1710, he was succeeded by the Eev. Mr. Anderson at 
l^ew Castle, and probably devoted all his time to White 
Clay till his death, in 1712. 

Andrews. 

Jedediah Andrews was born at Hingham, Mass., July 
7, 1674. He graduated at Harvard in 1695. In 1698 
he came to Philadelphia, and preached in a building on 
the northwest corner of Chestnut and Second Streets, 
which had been used by the " Barbadoes Company," 
and which was also occupied at the same time, by a 
mutual arrangement, by the Baptists of the city, as 
their place of worship.* He was probably ordained in 
the Fall of 1701, for his " Record of Baptisms and Mar- 
riages" begins " 1701, tenth month, fourteenth day." In 
1704 his congregation left their first place of worship, 
and erected a frame building on the south side of Mar- 
ket (then Buttonwood) Street, between Second and 
Third Streets, the first, and for many years the only 
Presbyterian Church in the city. After his settlement 
in Philadelphia, one of many obstacles which he had 
to encounter was the jealousy of the Episcopal mis- 
sionaries, especially that of G-eorge Keith.f 

* Appendix VII. 

f George Keith was born in Scotland in 1638, and a graduate of 
Aberdeen in the class with Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury. A promi- 
nent minister in the Society of Friends, he was disowned in Phila- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 83 

But, notwithstanding all the adverse influences with 
which he had to contend, Mr. Andrews was greatly 
encouraged in his work. His labors were not confined 
to the proper bounds of his congregation. Like 
Makemie he was a missionary, and felt the burden of 
care for the churches. Makemie, as we have seen, 
traversed the country to Boston, and crossed the ocean, 
to obtain ministers. Andrews could not well leave his 
post, but he was scarcely less active. He went abroad 
on preaching tours through the surrounding region, in 
Pennsylvania and the Jerseys, and thus was instru- 
mental in forming at various points, the nuclei of con- 
gregations w^hich were subsequently organized and grew 
into importance for their size and influence. He was 
Recording Clerk of the Presbytery* and of the Synod 
as long as he lived. He died in 1747.t 

delphia, as a disturber. Failing in his attempts to form a sect em- 
bodying the differences for which he contended, he took orders in 
England, and his efforts in America, from New Hampshire to Cur- 
rituck, entitle him to the credit of being the apostle of Prelacy, and 
the successful founder of the English Church on a permanent basis 
along the sea-coast. 

* The church of which Mr. Andrews was pastor was represented 
by elders in Presbytery from the first. He was punctual in his at- 
tendance on every meeting, being accompanied by Joseph Yard for 
eight years, in 1716, by David Giffing for six successive years, and 
frequently after by John Snowden, occasionally from 1723 by John 
Budd, and regularly from 1732 to 1746 by William Gray. 

f Appendix YI. 



84 PRESBYTERY 

Taylor. 

]!^athaniel Taylor. Dr. Hodge maintains, was a min- 
ister from Scotland. " A considerable number of 
Scotch," he says, " settled in Maryland. Col. Xinian 
Beall, a native of Fifeshire, having become implicated 
in the troubles arising out of the conflict with Epis- 
copacy, fled first to Barbadoes, and thence removed to 
Maryland, where he made an extensive purchase of 
land, covering much of the present site of "Washington 
and Georgetown. He sent home to urge his friends 
and neighbors to join him in his exile, and had in- 
fluence enough to induce about two hundred to come 
over. Thev arrived about 1690, brino-ins: with them 
their pastor, the Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, and formed 
the Church and congregation of Upper Marlborough. 
(MS. by the late Dr. Balch, of G-eorgetown.)'"* Mr. 
Taylor was a punctual attendant on every meeting of 
Presbytery till his death in 1710. His elder in 1707 
was William Smith, and in 1708 and 1709 James 
Bell (Beall?) 

Boyd. 

John Boyd, who was ordained by the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia, December 29, 1706, at Freehold, was a 

* Dr. Briggs says, " We have not been able to find any such 
name as Nathaniel Taylor in the Registers of the Universities of 
Scotland, or among the ministers of the Church of Scotland. The 
name is rather an English Puritan name. It seems much more likely 
that Nathaniel Tavlor was sent from Xew England." 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 



85 



native of Scotland, and was possibly licensed in that 
country to preach. At least he appears as ministering 
to the people of Freehold in 1706. His name is entered 
in the University of Glasgow, as a student of the 4th. 
class, March 11, 1701, without nationality. Two years 
after his ordination, steps were taken to have him 
regularly installed at Freehold, when he died.^ 

* The names of the Elders who attended one or more of the meet- 
ings of the Presbytery from its organization until 1716, are as 
follows : — 

James Caldwell. 
James Bell. 



Joseph Yard. 
William Smith. 
John Gardener, 
James Stoddard. 

Bell. 

John Gray. 
Alexander Bell. — 
William Fosset. 
Robert Wilson. 
Alexander Brown. 
Benjamin Aidlett. 
John Steel. 
Adam Spence. 
Segfrigus Alricks. 
Thomas Pike. 
Isaac Piper. 
John Burges. 
Isaac Dilbeck. 
Rowlaph Dehaws. 



Alexander White. 
Samuel Hopkins. 
Alexander Beal, 
Hugh Porter. 
Hans Hanson. 
Joseph Sealy. 
Sylvester Garland. 
William Scott. 
James Alexander. 
Ephraim Sayer. 
Thomas Heyward. 
John Parsons. 
Evan Rowland. 
John Dredden. 
David Giffin. 
Enoch Anderson. 



Ls XJ— 



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Religious Views of the Pounders of our Church, 

The religious views of these founders of our Church 
— whether they came from Scotland or from Ireland — 
were equally decided and well-known. They stead- 
fastly adhered to " the form of sound words" laid 
down in the Westminster Standards, which they held 
to be the fullest, the clearest, and the most Scrip- 
tural exhibition of the truths of revelation which had 
been drawn up for the use of the church in any age. 
All the influences which had been brought to bear on 
the Scottish population, from the reign of James I. till 
that of William III., had never infected them with the 
leaven of Pelagian or Socinian error. In Ireland, the 
population was equally Calvinistic and Evangelical. 
The Ulster Scots maintained their principles through 
the storm as well as in the calm, resisting alike the 
minions of the Stuarts during the monarchy, and the 
proffered endowments or the frowns of the officials of 
Cromwell in the days of the Commonwealth. They 
could leave the country, but they could not abandon 
their principles, l^o prelatic forms had crept into the 
system of Church government to which they were 
attached, and they were equally free from Arminian 
views, while no elements of Congregationalism had 
been adopted into their discipline. They Avere as 
much opposed to Independency, on the one hand, as 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 87 

they were to Prelacy, on the other, and that form of 
Church government which they loved, and for the 
maintainance of which they had testified in days of 
trial, they brought with them to these shores. 

Our Emigrant Fathers. 

"The training through which, in Scotland and Ire- 
land, our emigrant fathers had been conducted," says 
Dr. Blackwood,* " was admirably adapted to consti- 
tute them wise and energetic founders of new States. 
They were lovers of liberty, but they respected law, 
and it was a portion of their creed that the office 
of the civil magistrate is of God. Such a people 
were eminently qualified for establishing and main- 
taining the institutions of a free country. All national 
associations of men require the influence of a restrain- 
ing power. An atheistical or an immoral people may 
be controlled by the presence of a military force which 
represents and carries out the will of an autocrat, but 
a moral, religious, and educated people, among whom 
the fear of God dwells, and the influences of religion 
are in full operation, will require little external force 
or compulsion to secure the observance of order or 

* Introduction to Webster's " History of the Presbyterian Church 
in America." 



88 PRESBYTERY 

obedience to just and equitable laws. Their religion 
and their politics both take hold on the sanctions of 
eternity, and in their integrity, their obedience to law, 
and their respect for those who rule, it will be seen that 
true religion is the only safe foundation on which the 
edifice of civil society, especially in a republic, can be 
erected with any rational prospect of permanence." 

Such were our emigrant fathers. " Their moral prin- 
ciples were derived from the words of Him who lives 
and abides forever, and the commands of God, and the 
awful retributions of eternity, gave force to these prin- 
ciples, which became a living power and a controlling 
influence. The time has but just passed when the 
schoolmaster from Ireland taught the children of the 
Valley of Virginia, and the upper part of the Caroli- 
nas, as they taught in the mother-country, — when the 
children and youth at school recited the Assembly's 
Catechism once a week, and read parts of the Bible 
every day. The circle of their instruction was circum- 
scribed, but the children were taught to speak the 
truth and defend it; to keep a good conscience, and 
fear God — the foundation of good citizens and great 
men. Wherever they settled in America, besides the 
common schools, they turned their attention to high- 
schools and academies, and to colleges, to educate men 
for all the departments of life, carrying in their emi- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 89 

gration the deep conviction that without sound educa- 
tion there could be no permanence in religious or civil 
institutions, or any pure and undehased enjoyments of 
domestic life."* 

* Foote's Sketches of North Carolina. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

GROWTH OF THE PRESBYTERY — SKETCHES OF THE CONGRE- 
GATIONS CONNECTED WITH IT AT THE TIME OP ITS 
ORGANIZATION AND OF NEW MEMBERS SUBSEQUENTLY 
ADDED TO IT — DIVISION OF PRESBYTERY — INCREASE OF 
THE CHURCH. 

In 1707 the number of ministers belonging to 
Presbj^tery was eight. In 1716 the whole number w^s 
twenty-five, of whom seventeen were still living and in 
.connection with the Presbytery.* 

Churches in Maryland. 

As to the Churches represented in Presbytery at the 
time of its organization, there were in Maryland the 
churches of Upper Marlborough, Pehoboth, Snow 
Hill, Monokin, and Wicomico. " The first of these 
congregations, as previously stated, was formed by a 
company of Scotch emigrants who came to this country 
with their pastor, Eev. l!^athaniel Taylor, about the 

* Of the eiglit members whose names do not appear on the minutes 
in 1716, Messrs. Makemie, Wilson, Taylor, Boyd, and Lawson were 
dead, Messrs. Smith, Wade, and Van Cleck had withdrawn. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 91 

year 1690. The other four churches were in Somer- 
set County, on the eastern shore, and were, at least in 
their growth, the fruits of Mr. Makemie's labors." Of 
Snow Hill, Mr. Spence, in his " Letters," gives the fol- 
lowing account : " A town to be called Snowhill was 
established in Somerset, now Worcester County, by an 
act of the provincial legislature, passed in 1684, and I 
believe," he adds, " that the Presbyterian Church in 
that place is nearly or quite as old as the town. Snow- 
hill was settled by English Episcopalians, and Scotch 
and Irish Presbyterians, and it is certain that persons 
resided there at the time, or soon after the time in 
which the town was laid out, who were afterwards 
members of the Presbyterian Church. My ancestor, to 
whom I have already alluded, was a ruling elder in 
that Church." Of this family of churches Pehoboth is 
commonly considered to be the eldest. It consisted 
originally of English dissenters. Their first pastor was 
the Eev. Mr. Makemie, who, in his will, directs his 
executrix " to make over and alienate the lot on which 
the meeting-house is built, in as ample a manner, to all 
intents and purposes, as shall be required for the ends 
and uses of a Presbyterian congregation, as if I were 
personally present, and to their successors for ever, and 
to none else but to such as are of the same persuasion 
in matters of religion." {Spence, p. 89, and also Letter 
XIIL) It may be inferred from the terms of this be- 



92 ^ PRESBYTERY 

quest, and from the character of its founder, that this 
Church was strictly Presbyterian, a point which, it is 
believed, has never been disputed. The congregations 
of Monokin and Wicomico were under the pastoral care 
of Mr. Macnish, and were organized before 1705, the 
date of his application to the court for permission to 
preach. It can hardly be presumed that these five 
Presbyterian congregations with distinct church edifices, 
some of them within fifteen miles of each other, could, 
at so early a period, and in so thinly settled a part of 
the country, have been formed in a few years. And 
as they all existed prior to 1705, and as Mr. Makemie 
had resided and labored in that district for near 
twenty years before that date, preceded by others, 
it is altogether probable that several of them were 
formed before the commencement of the last century. 
That they were all Presbyterian Churches never has 
been questioned. As early as 1723, as appears from a 
recorded deed, the Church at Monokin had eight elders.* 
^ White Clay Creek, l!^ew Castle, and Apoquinimy were 
associated, as appears from the following record made 
in 1709 : " Ordered that Mr. Wilson (pastor of ^ew 
Castle) preach at Apoquinimy once a month upon a 

* Spence's Let. Ap. E. That deed is to the Rev. William Stew- 
ard and others, the elders ' ' and their successors forever, for the use, 
support, and continuance of a meeting-house, for the worship and 
service of Almighty God, according to the Presbyterian persuasion, 
and for no other use whatever." 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 93 

week day, and one Sabbath in a quarter till the afore- 
said meeting, provided always that the Sabbath day's 
sermon be taken from the White Clay Creek people 
their time." 

Church in Philadelphia. 

The first church in Philadelphia was organi^ied about 
1698. A number of English and Welsh dissenters, 
together with some French Protestants, had for some 
time been accustomed to assemble for religious worship, 
in connection with a few Baptists, in a storehouse at the 
corner of Chestnut and Second Streets, belonging to 
the Barbadoes Company. ISTeither party had a settled 
pastor, but the Rev. Mr. Watts, a Baptist minister of 
Pennepek, had agreed to preach for them every other 
Lord's day. This gentleman says in his narrative,* 
" that divers of the persons who came to that assembly 
were Presbyterians in judgment, they having no min- 
ister of their own, and we having hitherto made no 
scruple of holding communion with them in the public 
worship of Grod." The Presbyterians, probably finding 
themselves unpleasantly situated, determined upon call- 
ing a minister, and invited the Rev. Jedediah Andrews, 
from Boston, who accepted their invitation and arrived 
in Philadelphia in 1698. Shortly after his arrival, dis- 

* Edwards' Materials for a History of the Baptists, vol i. 104. 



94 PRESBYTERY 

sensions arose between the Baptists and Presbyterians, 
which resulted in their separation."^ The former with- 
drew, leaving the latter in possession of the storehouse, 
where they continued to worship until 1704, when they 
removed to a new meeting-house on Market Street. 

Church at New Castle and Lewes. 

In the manuscript history of the Church in l^ew 
Castle, it is stated that the first account of a Presby- 
terian congregation in that town is about 1704, at w^hich 
time the Rev. Mr. Wilson was the pastor. August 15, 
1707, a deed for a lot of land was made to certain per- 
sons in trust " for the use of the Presbyterian congre- 
gation in New Castle, on which they were to build a 
house for public worship." " The Church at Lewes was 
organized about the same time, though no record goes 
further back than 1708."— Dr. Hodge. 

Churches in New Jersey. 

The first of the churches in Kew Jersey to attach 
themselves to the Presbytery was Freehold. The origin 
of that church is as follows : In 1685 a handful of 
Presbyterians, who had suffered in the bloody persecu- 
tions of Charles II., were shipped from Scotland to be 
sold as slaves in the Colonies. But their captain died, 

* Appendix VII. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 95 

and his successor determined to take his cargo to Vir- 
ginia, as likely there to find the best market. But a 
tempestuous voyage drove them into Perth Amboy, and 
being set free by the authorities they determined to 
locate in l^ew Jersey. Many of them settled in Mon- 
mouth County. True to their extraction and education 
they gave immediate attention to religious privileges. 
They formed themselves into a church as early as 1692, 
and probably had built a house of worship before that 
time. They called their church Freehold. Among 
their number was John Boyd, who was probably 
licensed to preach in Scotland. At least he appears as 
ministering to that people in 1706. As previously 
stated, in December of that year he was ordained in his 
o-wn public meeting-house, and, after two years, steps 
were takeu to have him regularly installed, when he 
died. Then, for twenty years, Rev. Joseph Morgan 
ministered to that people, though it is not certain when 
he was installed. Mr. Morgan was received into the 
Presbytery in 1710. 

Cohanzy. 

The second church which applied to Presbytery was 
Cohanzy, in West Jersey. The settlement on Cohanzy 
was made from Fairfield County, Connecticut, and they 
named their new homes Fairfield and Greenwich, after 
the towns from which they came. It is said the church 



96 PRESBYTERY 

was formed in 1700, and supplied by Mr. Black. The 
Rev. Thomas Bridge preached at Cohanzy in 1702 or 
1703, and was called from there to a pastorate in Bos- 
ton. The Rev. Joseph Smith, a graduate of Harvard 
in 1695, who preached for a time at Brookfield, Mass., 
came to Cohanzy at the instance of his college class- 
mate, Mr. Andrews, who said they were " the best peo- 
ple in this neighborhood," and in May, 1708, he was 
received as a probationer by the Presbytery, and a 
committee was appointed to install him. 

"Woodbridge. 

At the same meeting, letters from "Woodbridge in- 
formed the Presbytery of a difference in the church at 
that place about the pastor, Rev. ^N'athaniel Wade, and 
solicited their aid in settling the difficulty. Presby- 
tery wrote in a kind and conciliatory spirit to the min- 
isters of Fairfield County. In September, 1710, Mr. 
Wade desired to be a member of the Presbytery, and 
was received, having satisfied the brethren by " letters, 
testimonials, and personal arguings, that his proceed- 
ings gave just ground for his acceptance." Mr. Wade 
sat in Presbytery in 1711, with his elder, Thomas Pike, 
and resigned all pastoral relations to the people in 
Woodbridge. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 97 

Presbyterians in Great Valley. 

The Presbytery in 1710 took under their care David 
Evans, a Welshman, as a candidate for the ministry. 
" Welsh Presbyterian congregations (says Webster) ex- 
isted in Pencader, or the Welsh Tract, and in Tredryf- 
fryn, or the Great Valley, in Chester County, as early 
as 1710, for in that year the Presbytery agreed that 
David Evans had done very ill in preaching or teach- 
ing in the latter place, and he was censured for acting 
irregularly, and for invading the work of the ministry. 
As the most proper method to advance him in neces- 
sary literature, and prepare him for the ministerial 
work, he was directed to lay aside all other business for 
a twelvemonth, and apply himself closely to learning 
and study under the direction of Andrews. Liberty 
was given to Andrews, Wilson, and Anderson "to take 
him on trials, and at their discretion to license him. 

" In 1711 a committee of Presbytery examined him, 
and approved of his hopeful proficiency, and he was 
allowed to preach as a candidate for one year, under 
the direction of Andrews, Wilson, and Anderson. In 
the next Eall, David Evans, a candidate, was chosen 
clerk of Presbytery, his penmanship being careful and 
in the extreme curious. The people of Welsh Tract 
and Great Valley petitioned that he might be ordained, 
but, though he had. made considerable proficiency, it 
was voted that he should continue to study as before. 



98 PRESBYTERY 

" In 1713 lie graduated at Yale College, and was sent 
at the request of the people to reside at Welsh Tract 
and preach there. They gave him a unanimous call, 
and, after a thorough examination and the usual trials, 
he was ordained, ^November 3, 1714. There being 
divers persons in the Great Yalley with whom he was 
concerned, they were declared a distinct society from 
his pastoral charge." Mr. Evans died before May, 
1751. 

Anderson. 

The Rev. James Anderson was next received by the 
Presbytery. Mr. Anderson was born in Scotland, I^o- 
vember 17, 1678, and was ordained by Irvine Presbytery, 
l^ovember 17, 1708, with a view to his settlement in 
Virginia. He arrived in the Eappahannock April 22, 
1709, but the state of things not warranting his stay, 
he came northward, and was received by the Presbytery 
September 20th, in that year. He settled at 'New Castle, 
Delaware. In 1717 he accepted a call to a congregation 
in New York, which, at the time, was worshipping in 
the City Hall. September 24, 1726, he received a call 
to Donegal, on the Susquehanna, and accepted it. He 
was installed the last Wednesday in August, 1727. In 
September, 1729, he began to give every fifth Sabbath 
to the people in Swatara, and joined the congregation 
of Derry. In April, 1738, the Presbytery decided 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 99 

to ask the Synod to send a deputation to wait on the 
Virginia Government, and solicit its favor in behalf 
of Presbyterianism there. The Synod wrote to the 
Governor, and sent Mr. Anderson to bear the letter, 
providing supplies for his pulpit, and allowing for his 
expenses " in a manner suitable to his design." This 
mission was performed satisfactorily. He died July 16, 
1740. 

Henry. 

The Rev. John Henry, who was ordained by the 
Presbytery of Dublin, and came to Maryland in 1709, 
having been invited, on the death of Mr. Makemie, to 
be his successor, was admitted a member of Presbytery 
in 1710, and received a call " from the good people of 
Rehoboth," Messrs. Hampton and Davis preaching at 
his " admission." He stood high as a citizen and a 
divine. He died before September, 1717. 

Van Vleck. 

In September, 1710, Eev. Paul us Van Vleck, a native 
of Holland, joined the Presbytery, being the minister 
of the Low Dutch congregation of ^eshaminy,* in 

* That they were regularly organized is evident from a minute re- 
corded in 1711, which states that Mr. Van Yleck's absence from 
Presbytery was accounted for <'by one of his elders, sent for that 
purpose." 



100 PRESBYTERY 

Bucks County, Pa., Mr. Leonard Yandegrift being his 
elder. By whom he had been ordained does not appear. 

Gillespie. 

The Rev. George Gillespie was the next to enter the 
Presbytery. He was born in 1683, in the town of 
Glasgow, and educated in the University there. He 
was licensed by Glasgow Presbytery early in 1712, and 
came to ^ew England in the Spring. He first settled at 
Woodbridge. He was ordained May 28, 1713, having 
received a call from the people of White Clay Creek. 
Red Clay, Lower Brandywine, and Elk River, besides 
White Clay, seem to have formed his charge for several 
years. He is said to have organized the congregation 
of the Head of Christiana, and he served it till his 
death, which occurred January 2, 1760. Mr. Gillespie 
was zealous for the interests of the Church, and was 
remarkably punctual in attendance on Presbytery and 
Synod. Mr. Alison, who knew him, called him " that 
pious saint of God." 

Bratton. 

The Rev. Thomas Bratton arrived in Maryland in 
the Fall of 1711, and the next year, being detained by 
sickness, he sent to the Presbytery a " certificate of his 
legal admission to the ministry." Robert Wilson, a 
commissioner from Monokin and Wicomico, presented 



OF PHILADELPHIA. - 101 

a call for him by those congregations. He had probably 
preached for them from his arrival. Mr. Anderson 
wrote to him in respect to the call in favor of the people, 
but the letter scarcely reached him before he died. He 
finished his course in October, 1712. 

McGill. 

On the death of Mr. Taylor at Patuxent, the congre- 
gation applied to their friends in London, who procured 
for them the Rev. Daniel McGill. He joined the Pres- 
bytery in 1713. In 1719 the Synod sent him to preach 
to the people of Pocomoke, Virginia, where he spent 
some months, and put " the people into church order," 
but declined their call. Mr. McGill was called to Elk 
River, in Maryland, but after a long delay declined. 
He was a supply for short periods in Kent, at Birming- 
ham, on Brandywine, at Snow Hill, White Clay, 
Drawyers, Conestoga, and Octorara. He died February 
10, 1724, his home being in the London Tract, !N"ew 
Castle County, Del. He was a valuable member of 
Synod, a good preacher, and a learned man. 

Powell. 

The Rev. Howell Powell offered himself for ad- 
mission to Presbytery in 1713, and the Presbytery, 
well satisfied of his ordination, advised him to procure 
within a year further credentials from some eminent 



102 PRESBYTERY 

ministers in England, whom they knew. Till then he 
was to be free to exercise his ministry in all its parts 
where Providence should call him, but not fally to 
settle as a minister. He received a call to Cohanzy. 
In 1714, he sat in Presbytery with his elder, Joseph 
Sealey. Though he had used diligence, he had not 
received the required credentials, but the Presbytery, 
being satisfied by so long trial and personal acquaint- 
ance, together with other considerable circumstances, 
sustained, on mature deliberation, the unanimous call 
given him from Cohanzy. He accepted it, and Mr. 
Andrews preached his installation sermon, October 14, 
1715. Mr. Powell died in 1717. 

Jones. 

The Pev. Malachi Jones, ordained in Wales, was 
admitted as a member of Presbytery, September 9, 
1714. He came to Abingdon, near Philadelphia, where 
a church was organized, in 1714, on the Congregational 
plan. It soon adopted the Presbyterian method. Mr. 
Andrews, in writing to a friend, March 7, 1729, adds, 
" P.S. — Ten days ago, died Mr. Malachi Jones, an old 
Welsh minister. He was a good man, and did good." 

"Wotherspoon. 

Robert Wotherspoon (or Witherspoon), a native of 
Scotland, wrote to the Presbytery in 1713, enclosing 
his credentials as a probationer. He was ordained to 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 103 

the sacred function and office of the ministry to the 
Presbyterian congregation at Apoquinimy, May 13, 
1714. He died in May 1718. 

Bradner. 

" On the removal of John Bradner from Scotland," 
says Mr. Webster, " Hampton and Henry, on good and 
sufficient reasons, took him on trial, and licensed him 
in March, 1714. He was called to Cape May, and 
ordained May 6, 1715. He removed, in 1721, to Gosh- 
en, in Orange County, ^ew York, and died before 
September, 1733." 

Conn. 
In 1715 Hugh Conn, born at Macgilligan, Ireland, 
about 1685, came from London with letters from 
Thomas Reynolds. He was received by the Presbytery 
as a probationer September 20th, and, having been 
called by the people of Baltimore County, Maryland, 
he was ordained October 3d. Mr. Reynolds sent a 
message by Mr. Conn that he would continue his gifts, 
and the Presbytery wrote him a letter of thanks. In 
September, 1719, Mr. Conn having obtained leave to 
demit his pastoral charge on account of " the paucity 
of his flock," immediately took charge of the people 
on the East Branch of Potomac and Pomonkey. 
Bladensburg is the modern designation of his field of 
labor, Pomonkey being a creek in that vicinity. He 



104 PEESBYTERY 

remained there till his death. He died on the 28th of 
June, 1752, while preaching at the funeral of a person 
who had died suddenly. In speaking of the certainty 
of death, and the uncertainty of the time when it might 
happen, he put one hand to his head and one to his 
side, and, falling backward, instantly expired. Presi- 
dent Davies, in two of his printed sermons, refers to the 
manner of his death. 

Orr. 

Robert Orr, a probationer, from Ireland or Scotland, 
having preached some time for the people of Maiden- 
head and Hopewell, presented his credentials to the 
Presbytery in 1715. They were approved, and, a call 
being presented by Mr. Philip Rings, he was ordained 
October 20, 1715, at Maidenhead. His field embraced 
the ground covered by Pennington, Lawrence, Trenton ; 
(First Church), Trenton City, Titusville, and perhaps 
Amwell. He resigned his charge in 1719. 

Pumry. 
Rev. Samuel Pumry was born in ^N'orthampton, Mass., 
Sept. 16, 1687, and graduated at Yale in 1705. He ac- 
cepted a call to a congregation in Newtown, on Long 
Island, in 1708, and was ordained l^ov. 30, 1709. In 
1715 he was received as a member of Presbytery. He 
died June 30, 1744, " leaving his congregation," says 
the church record, " to bewail an unspeakable loss." 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 105 

Thomson. 

John Thomson, who was a native of Ireland, came to 
this country as a probationer for the ministry in 1715, 
and was ordained over the congregation at Lewies, Del., 
in 1717. He left Lewies in 1729, the next Fall accepted 
a call from Middle Octorara, and in 1732 removed to 
Chestnut Level. Being in great straits, the congrega- 
tions in Donegal Presbj^tery kindly made collections 
for his relief in 1733. His thankfnl acknowledgment 
was placed on the record. Dr. Hodge says of Mr. 
Thomson : " He appears to have been a man of self- 
command, learning, and piety. He took indeed an 
active, and in some respects a very mistaken part in 
opposition to Mr. Whitefield and Mr. Tennent, yet no 
one' can read his writings without being impressed with 
respect for his character and talents." 

Division of Presbytery. 

Such was the increase of the Presbytery, and of the 
churches within its territorial limits, that, at a meetinof 
on Sept. 21, 1716, it adopted the following minute: — 

''It having pleased Divine Providence so to increase 
our number, as that, after much deliberation, we judge 
it may be more serviceable to the interest of religion to 
divide ourselves into subordinate meetings or presby- 
teries, constituting one annually as a synod, to meet at 
Philadelphia or elsewhere, to consist of all the mem- 



106 PRESBYTERY 

bers of each subordiimte presbytery or meeting for this 
year at least : Therefore, it is agreed by the Presbytery, 
after serious deliberation, that the first subordinate 
meeting or presbytery to meet at Philadelphia or else- 
where, as they shall see fit, do consist of these following 
members, viz : Masters Andrews, Jones, Powell, Orr, 
Bradner, and Morgan. And the second to meet at 
JSTew Castle or elsewhere, as they shall see fit, to consist 
of these, viz : Masters Anderson, McGill, Gillespie, 
Witherspoon, Evans, and Conn. The third to meet at 
Snow Hill"^ or elsewhere, to consist of these, viz : Mas- 
ters Davis, Hampton, and Henry. And, in considera- 
tion that only our brethren Mr. Mcl^ish and Mr. Pumry 
are of our number on Long Island at present, we ear- 
nestly recommend to them to use their best endeavors 
with the neighboring brethren that are settled there 
which, as jet join not with us, to join with them in 
erecting a fourth presbytery. "f — Records of the Presby- 
terian Churchy pp. 43, 44. 

* The project of forming the ministers on the peninsula between 
the Delaware and the Chesapeake into the Presbytery of Snow Hill 
failed. — Webster, p. 95. 

f It is a matter of some interest to notice the peculiar phrases by 
which the several meetings of Presbytery, and their respective ses- 
sions, are prefaced in the Minutes. Thus we read Sederunt 2d 10 
bris. 27. — Post preces sederunt. May 19, Sessione 2da, post preces, 
etc. May 20, Post Merid. Sessione Ata, post preces, etc. Hora 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 107 

In referring to the existence of the Presbytery from 
its formation until its division just noticed, Mr. Webster 
observes : " The intercourse of the brethren was har- 
monious and happy, quiet, steady growth in numbers 
marked each successive meeting, and the churches 
which had retained their 'New England connection and 
their independent form, gradually, with their ministers, 
joined their fellowship and walked by the same rule. 
I^ewtown and Southampton, on Long Island, led the 
way; Elizabeth town and Newark, accompanied by their 
neighbors, followed. 

" Thus, in the formation of the churches, and in the 
establishment of the Presbytery, the fathers of our Zion 
brought with them and planted on our soil the same 
system of church order and government to which they 
were attached, and for which many of them had borne 
hardness in their native land. The essential elements 
of presbytery, containing the parity of pastors and the 
prerogatives of ruling elders in their respective churches, 
together with the action of the ' Kirk Session,' from 
which an appeal might be taken to a higher court, in 

qua. ante merid. post preces sederunt^ etc. Die Jovis, 2da. sederunt 
postpreces. Die Veneris ante meridiem 4, sederunt, etc., post preces, 
23 Die Martis, post preces, etc. Die Mercurii, 16th day. Post 
preces sederunt, etc. Post Meridiem, three o'olock. Post preces 
ut supra. Die Veneris at half an hour after eight o^ clock, sederunt 
ut supra. 



108 PRESBYTERY 

which the subject under consideration should be authori- 
tatively disposed of, were principles of government as 
well known to them as to their descendants in more 
modern times." 

The Minutes of the Presbytery of Philadelphia from 
1717 to 1733 are lost. 

The body under its new designation as a Synod met 
September, 1717. The Rev. Jedediah Andrews was its 
first moderator, and the Rev. Robert Wotherspoon its 
first clerk. The number of ministers in the organiza- 
tion had, as already stated, increased to seventeen, of 
whom thirteen, with six ruling elders, were present at 
the constitution of the body. The territory occupied 
by them extended along the Atlantic slope from Long 
Island to Virginia. 

Immigration. 

The increase of the church, both at the formation of 
the Presbytery and subsequently, arose principally from 
the immigration of Presbyterians, ministers as well as 
people, from abroad, and from the organization of those 
already scattered through the country. 

Scotch-Irish. 

Among the emigrants the Scotch-Irish were con- 
spicuous. The greater number of those people, or their 
ancestors, had formerly removed from Scotland to the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 109 

north of Ireland, but they were treated with so much 
ingratitude and neglect there that they sought refuge in 
America. The Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, in the 
province of Ulster, having conspired against the gov- 
ernment in the reign of James I., lied from the king- 
dom to escape punishment. Some of their accomplices 
were arrested, condemned, and executed, but the two 
Earls were attainted by a process of outlawry, upon 
w^hich their vast estates, about five hundred thousand 
acres of land, escheated to the crown. King James 
resolved, if possible, to improve a country that was 
covered by woods, desolated by war, infested by rob- 
bers, or inhabited by ignorant adherents to the Romish 
Church. For this purpose he divided the escheated 
lands into small tracts, and those he gave to adventur- 
ers, who were to settle them within four years, with a 
certain number of sub-tenants. According to his 
advice, the preference was given, in distributing the 
lands, to adventurers from the west of Scotland. They 
were Protestants from his own country. They were 
industrious people, and the passage being very short, 
they might, with the greater ease, settle the lands 
according to their contracts. The establishment of 
Prelacy in Scotland, in the year 1637, and afterwards 
in the year 1661, among people who had adopted the 
more simple form of Presbyterian worship, became the 



110 PRESBYTERY 

additional cause of uumerous emigrations from that 
kingdom to the north of Ireland. 

The superior knowledge, industry, and temperance 
of the Scotch farmers in a short time enabled them to 
supplant the natives among whom they lived, and six 
of the northern counties by the end of the seventeenth 
century, were chiefly inhabited by the descendants of 
Scottish emigrants, or the remains of Cromwell's army. 
That Protestant colony has been the chief support of 
government against all attempts to establish a Catholic 
prince, by treason, insurrection, or murder. Those men 
have been the steady and active supporters of the Han- 
over succession. Their faithful services, and uniform 
attachment to government, had placed them in the rank 
of good and faithful subjects, and their unshaken loy- 
alty had entitled them to confidence and public favor. 
But they were treated like aliens and strangers, with 
marks of distrust in their civil capacity, and they were 
depressed in their religious capacity, by the spirit of 
intolerance, because they were not of the established 
Church of Ireland. Men who were thus degraded and 
vexed by incapacities and burdens migrated in 
thousands to the new Western World, in many of the 
provinces of which the principles of civil and religious 
liberty had their full operation. 

In referring to the Ulster Presbyterians, w^ho, to 
escape oppression, sailed in large numbers for America, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. Ill 

the Rev. John De Witt justly observes:* "Their ad- 
vent proved a benediction to the Colonies as great as 
the earlier immisrration of the Ens-lish Puritans, ^o 
men did more than the men from Ulster to secure the in- 
dependence of the American States. ]^o men did better 
work in the political organization of the States and 
the Federal Union. N'one surpassed them in love of 
learning and in the strength of their determination to 
be free. Their blood was the blood of the most per- 
sistent nationality in Europe. N'early three centuries 
have justified the boast of King James, uttered when 
they passed from Scotland to the Ulster plantations, 
that here at least was a people, unlike the English of 
the pale, too vigorous to be absorbed or modified by 
the Irish Celts. Their life in their second home, severe 
as it was, was a providential preparation for their mis- 
sion in the I^ew World. As Mr. Bancroft has well 
said of them, ' Their training in Ireland had kept the 
spirit of liberty and the readiness to resist unjust 
government as fresh in their hearts, as though they had 
just been listening to the preaching of Knox or musing 
over the political creed of the Westminster Assembly. 
"When in the eighteenth century the movement from 
Ulster to America had fairly begun, it increased in 
volume annually until the beginning of the difficulties 

* Address on " The First General Assembly." 



112 PRESBYTERY 

between the Araerican Colonies and the mother 
country. The emigration had begun as early as the 
seventeenth century, during the persecutions of the 
Stuarts. But it was in the reigns of Anne and George 
the First that it began so greatly to enlarge, and to 
increase the number of the congregations of the Synod 
of Philadelphia. " Year after year," we are told, 
" from the second quarter of the eighteenth century, 
it is estimated, that twelve thousand people annually 
sailed for America from the ^N'orth of Ireland. Such 
was the drain, indeed, that it was computed, that in 
1773 and the five preceding 3^ears, the ]^orth of Ireland 
lost by emigration to America, one-fourth of the 
trading cash and a like proportion of the manufacturing 
people." 

Mr. Froude* thus expresses himself on this subject : 
" The Protestant settlers in Ireland at the beginning of 
the seventeenth century were of the same metal with 
those who afterwards sailed in the Mayflower — Pres- 
byterians, Puritans, Independents — in search of a wilder 
breathing space than was allowed them at home. By 
an unhappy perversity they had fallen under the same 
stigma, and were exposed to the same inconveniences. 
The bishops had chafed them with persecutions. . . . 
The heroism with which the Scots held the northern 

* Vol. I., pp. 129, 130. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 113 

province against the Kilkenny Parliament and Owen 
Eoe O'll^eil, was an insufficient offset against the sin of 
non-conformity. . . . This was a stain for which no 
excellence could atone. The persecutions were renewed, 
but did not cool Presbyterian loyalty. When the 
native race made their last efforts under James XL, to 
recover their lands, the Calvinists of Derry won im- 
mortal honor for themselves, and flung over the 
wretched annals of their adopted country a solitary 
gleam of true glory. Even this passed for nothing. 
They were still dissenters, still unconscious that they 
owed obedience to the hybrid successors of St. Patrick, 
the prelates of the Establishment, and no sooner was 
peace re-established than spleen and bigotry were again 
at their old work. Vexed with suits in the ecclesiastical 
courts, forbidden to educate their children in their 
own faith, treated as dangerous to a State which but 
for them w^ould have had no existence, and deprived 
of their civil rights, the most earnest of them at length 
abandoned the unthankful service. ... If they in- 
tended to live as freemen, speaking no lies and pro- 
fessing openly the creed of the Reformation, they must 
seek a country w^here the long arm of prelacy ivas still too 
short to reach them. During the first half of the eighteenth 
century, Down, Antrim, Tyrone, Armagh, and Derry 
w^ere emptied of Protestant inhabitants, who were of 
more value to Ireland than California gold-mines." 



114 PRESBYTERY 

" Irish Presbyterians," says Dr. Briggs, " emigrated 
in large numbers to America from 1713 onward, and 
added greatly to the strength of American Presbyte- 
rianism. The Presbyterians were rendered exceedingly 
uncomfortable in Ireland by the ' Test Act,' vrhich 
expelled them from all public offices, honors, and em- 
ploj^ments. 

" 1^0 Presbyterian could henceforth hold any office 
in the army or navy, in the customs, excise, or post- 
office, nor in any of the courts of law, in Dublin or the 
provinces. They were forbidden to be married by their 
own ministers, they were prosecuted in the ecclesiasti- 
cal courts for immorality because they had so married. 
The bishops introduced clauses into their leases forbid- 
ding the erection of meeting-houses on any part of 
their estates, and induced many landlords to follow 
their example. ... To crown all, the Schism Act was 
passed in 1714, which would have swept the Presby- 
terian Church out of existence, but Queen Anne died 
before it came into operation, but not before the furious 
zeal of Swift had nailed up the doors and windows of 
the Presbyterian meeting-house at Summer Hill, in the 
neio-hborhood of Laracor. Similar scenes occurred at 
three other places. The immediate effect of these 
proceedings was to estrange the Presbyterian people, 
and, soon after, when they saw that all careers were 
closed against them, wearied out with long exactions. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 115 

the J began to leave the country by thousands. The 
destruction of the woolen trade sent 20,000 of them 
away. The rapacity and greed of landlords, and es- 
pecially of the Marquis of Donegal, the grandson of Sir 
Arthur Chichester, the founder of the Ulster Plantation, 
caused the stream of emigration to America to flow 
on for nearly forty years without intermission."* 

" In the two years," says Froude, " which followed the 
Antrim evictions, thirty thousand Protestants left Ulster 
for a land where there was no legal robbery, and where 
those who sowed the seed could reap the harvest. . . . 
The south and west were caught by the same move- 
ment, and ships could not be found to carry the crowds 
who were eager to go." 

In the Spring of 1718 an Irish minister wrote to 
Wodrow in Scotland : — 

'' There is like to be a great desolation in the northern 
parts of this kingdom by the removal of several of our 
brethren to the American plantations, l^o less than 
six ministers have demitted their congregations, and 
great numbers of their people go with them, so that 
they are daily alarmed with both ministers and people 
going ofl'."t 

On the sixth day of eighth month, 1718, Cotton 

* Thomas Croskery, Irish Preshyterianism, Dublin, 1884, pp. 
13, 14. 
t Reid, in 1. c. III., p. 262. 



116 PRESBYTERY 

Mather wrote to Principal Sterling, of Glasgow, " We 
are comforted with great numbers of the oppressed 
brethren comins: from the north of Ireland. The 
glorious providence of God, in the removal of so many 
of a desirable character from the north of Ireland, hath 
doubtless very great intentions in it." 

Grand Motive of Immigration. 
In these statements we have the grand reason which 
prompted the emigration of our forefathers to the 
western world. They came to this land seeking, not 
wealth or fame, but a retreat in which to worship God 
and train up their children in the principles of their 
religion, without incurring the wrath of princes or 
bringing upon them the terrors of inquisitors. 

" Not as the conqueror comes, 

They, the true-hearted, came ; 
Not with the roll of the stirring drums, 
And the trumpet that sings of fame. 

" Not as the flying come, 
In silence and in fear, — 
They shook the depths of the desert gloom 

With their hymns of lofty cheer. _ 

* * * * * * 

There were men with hoary hair 

Amidst that Pilgrim band. 
Why had they come to wither there, 

Awav from their childhood's land ? 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 117 

There was woman's fearless eye, 

Lit by her deep love's truth, 
There was manhood's brow serenely high, 

And the fiery heart of youth. 

What sought they thus afar ? 

Bright jewels of the mine ? 
The wealth of seas ? the spoils of war ? — 

They sought a faith's pure shrine. 

Ay, call It holy ground, 

The soil where first they trod, 
They have left unstained what there they found — 

Freedom to worship God." 

This they sought, and this they left to all succeeding 
ages, but this they hardly found for themselves, as we 
have elsewhere shown. 

Emigration Checked. 

The tide of emigration was somewhat checked for a 
brief period by the passage of the Toleration Act, and 
by further promises of relief. It, however, began anew 
in 1728, ten years later, as appears from a statement 
which Archbishop Boulter sent to the English Secre- 
tary of State, and which he calls a " melancholy ac- 
count" of the condition of the north, and of the exten- 
sive emigration which w^as taking place to America. 
" We have had for several years some agents from the 
colonies in America, and several masters of ships, that 



118 PRESBYTERY 

have gone about the countiy and deluded the people 
with stories of great plenty and estates to be had for 
going for in those parts of the world, and they have 
been the better able to seduce people by reason of the 
necessities of the poor of late." He proceeds to assign 
reasons why the people desire to leave the country, and 
then adds : " But whatever occasions their going, it is 
certain that above four thousand two hundred men, 
women and children have been shipped off from hence 
for the West Indies within three ^^ears, and of these 

about thirty-one hundred this last summer The 

whole north is in a ferment at present, and people every 
day engaging one another to go. The humor has 
spread like a contagious distemper, and the people will 
hardly hear anybody that tries to cure them of their 
madness. The worst is that it affects only Protestants 
and reigns chiefly in the north." In a private letter 
the following year the bishop states that " the hamor 
of going to America still continues. There are now 
seven ships at Belfast that are carrying off about one 
thousand passengers thither." 

English Immigrants. 

In England, ever since the memorable St. Bartholo- 
mew's day, all eyes had been anxiously turned to the 
Transatlantic settlements, notwithstanding they were 
as yet a wilderness, and while some fled to Holland, a 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 119 

great number betook themselves, as voluntary exiles, to 
the Western world. Prominent among those who 
sought refuge in this direction from oppression and 
cruelty were the Huguenots or French Protestants. 
The persecutions to which they were exposed during 
the reign of Louis XIV., consummated by the revoca- 
tion of the Edict of I^antes in 1685, drove hundreds of 
thousands of those unhappy people from their native 
country. Though the frontiers were vigilantly guarded, 
upwards of ^ve hundred thousand of them made their 
escape. They fled to Switzerland, Germany, Holland, 
and England, and very many of them came to this 
country. 

Foreign Protestant refugees, most of whom were 
Presbyterians, settled in large numbers in the middle 
colonies. The fierce persecution by which they were 
driven to this country, and the overbearing or perse- 
cuting spirit, on religious accounts, in many of the 
other colonies, as contrasted with the liberality of the 
Quakers of Pennsylvania, who were disposed to open 
their arms to all denominations of professing Christians 
who might be inclined to settle among them, induced 
the flocking of men by tens, by hundreds, and by 
thousands, to a place where men pretended not to as- 
sume the prerogatives of Deity, nor judge, condemn, 
and punish in His stead. The same thing was true of 
Maryland, in which the Eoman Catholics were colo- 



120 PRESBYTERY 

nized under a charter which compelled them to exer- 
cise universal toleration towards Protestant sects. 

Welsh Immigrants. 

The Welsh, from their numbers, deserve particular 
notice. The principal settlement of them at an early 
period was upon the left bank of the Schuylkill. They 
there occupied three townships, and in a few j^ears their 
numbers so increased that they obtained three addi- 
tional townships. 

German Immigrants. 

'Nor must the German settlers in Pennsylvania, by 
any means, be overlooked in this enumeration. Their 
immigration commenced as early as 1682 or 1683, and 
very rapidly increased. From 1730 to 1740, about 
sixty-five vessels, well filled with Germans, arrived at 
Philadelphia, bringing with them ministers of the 
Gospel and schoolmasters, to instruct their children. 
Prom 1740 to 1755, upwards of one hundred vessels 
arrived, which were filled with emigrants of the same 
nation, and in some of which, though small, there were 
between five and six hundred passengers. With regard 
to the Germans in Pennsylvania, Mr. Andrews, pastor 
of the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, in a letter 
dated October 14, 1730, says : " There is, besides, in 
this province a vast number of Palatines, and they 
come in still every year. Those that have come of late 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 121 

are mostly Presbyterian, or, as they call themselves, 
Reformed, the Palatinate being about three-fifths of that 
sort of people." " There are many Lutherans and some 
Reformed mixed among them. In other parts of the 
country they are chiefly Reformed, so that I suppose 
the Presbyterian party are as numerous as the Quakers, 
or near it." Another authority states that, in 1729, 
" there arrived in Pennsylvania from Europe six thou- 
sand two hundred and eight persons, and of these more 
than five thousand were from Ireland." Dr. Baird, in 
his History of Religion in America^ states that, '' from 
1729 to 1750, about twelve thousand annually came from 
Ulster to America." 

" Thus," says Dr. Miller, " after the formation of the 
Synod in 1716, the body went on increasing, receiving 
additions, not only by emigration from Scotland and 
Ireland, but also from natives of England and Wales, 
who came to the middle colonies, and were thrown 
by circumstances in the neighborhood of Presbyterian 
churches, and also from natives, or their descendants, 
of France, Holland, Switzerland, who preferred the 
Presbyterian form of worship or government. To these 
may be added a number from E"ew England, who were 
induced by local considerations, or other circumstances, 
to connect themselves with the Presbyterian body."* 

* * Article Presbyterian Church in the United States, in EncyclO' 
pcedia of Religious Knowledge. 



122 PRESBYTERY 

Dr. Charles Hodge, in referring to the rapid increase 
of the Presbyterian Church in this country, observes : 
" This is no matter of surprise, when it is seen that so 
large a portion of the emigrants were Presbyterians. 
As they merged their diversities of national character 
into that of American citizens, so the Scotch, Irish, 
French, English, Dutch, and German Presbyterians be- 
came united in thousands of instances in the American 
Presbyterian Church. Having the same views of civil 
government, our population, so diversified as to its 
origin, forms a harmonious civil society, and agreeing 
in opinion on the government of the Church, the vari- 
ous classes above specified formed a religious society, 
in which the difference of their origin was as little 
regarded as it was in the State." 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 123 



CHAPTER y. 

DOCTRINAL BASIS AND BOND OP UNION. 

It has been made a question whether the Presby- 
tery of Philadelphia from the beginning had a written 
Constitution, and formally adopted the Westminster 
Confession. 

On this subject Mr. Webster observes : " The records 
of the Synod of Ulster before 1697 are lost, but the 
Rev. Mr. Iredell declared to the Synod, in 1721, that 
he had assented to the Confession of the Westminster 
divines in 1688, and it is improbable that any persons 
were licensed without giving to the Presbytery entire 
satisfaction of their doctrinal soundness, even in minor 
matters. What had been matter of custom was, by the 
unanimous vote of the Synod in 1698, made a matter 
of statute ; candidates, on being licensed, were required 
to subscribe the Confession, and in June, 1705, 'such 
ministers as are to be licensed shall subscribe the West- 
minster Confession to be the confession of their faith, 
and promise to adhere to the doctrine, disciplnie, and 
government therein contained, as also those that are 
licensed and have not subscribed are to be obliged to 
subscribe before they are ordained.' This was unani- 



124 PRESBYTERY 

mously approved of, and the next year the Presbyteries 
reported that the rule was uniformly complied with.* 
When the Presbytery of Philadelphia met, this doubt- 
less made, of course, a part of their constitution. 

" The first leaf of their records being lost, we can know 
nothing of the articles of agreement embraced in their 
bond of union, but if it were not for the paging, one 
might naturally suppose that a thousand leaves were 
gone, with the proceedings of a century spread upon 
them, for there is no appearance in the movements of 
the body, indicating that it was oppressed with a 
cumbrous system which it had not proved. The 
machinery goes on as quietly as though by long use 
every part had become thoroughly fitted for its place 
and work. Were it not for the names of places inci- 
dentally mentioned, one could easily believe that he had 
taken up the minutes of some of the original Presby- 
teries of the Irish Church." 

"That the Presbytery did not at first adopt any" 
written constitution," says the Rev. S. J. Baird,t " can 
only be matter of inference, as the minute recording its 
organization is lost. The fact is apparent, however, 
from the following reasons : — 

* In 1708, the churches of Connecticut, represented by delegates 
at Saybrook, unanimously adopted the Westminster Confession, 
leaving out some things relating to license and church discipline. 

t Assembly's Digest. 



OP PHILADELPHIA. 125 

" (a) 'NeMher in the letter of the Presbytery to the 
ITew England Ministers (Book vi. § 2), nor in those to 
the Synods of Dublin (Book v. § 22) and Glasgow (below, 
§ 3), announcing their organization and desiring aid and 
correspondence, is any mention made of the adoption 
of any written standards. Had they adopted any, the 
omission to state the fact, especially to the Scotch and 
Irish Synods, is unaccountable. 

" (b) Although, after the passage of the Adopting Act, 
the adoption of the Westminster standards is a matter 
of constant record in connection with the ordination of 
candidates, in no instance does such a record occur prior 
to that event, although ' orthodoxy in doctrinal religion' 
is constantly insisted upon. 

" (c) In the preamble to a resolution adopted in the 
case of the Rev. Mr. Wade (Book vi. § 3), it is said, 
'at his own proposal we admitted him as a member 
of our Presbytery, and he submitted himself willingly 
to our constitution.' That this does not refer to any 
written standards appears from the form of the ex- 
pression, evidently not designed to indicate the adoption 
of articles of faith and order, as well as from the paral- 
lel statement made to the Woodbridge people. ' The 
Eev. E'athaniel Wade made application to the Pres- 
bytery to be admitted a member thereof, .... he 
having fully and freely submitted himself to the 
judgment and discipline of the Church according to 



126 PRESBYTERY 

Presbytery, and also to the meeting in particular to 
whom he and his people now stand in relation.' — 
Minutes^ 1710, p. 19. This language, so detailed and 
peculiar, explains the other, and precludes the idea 
of a constitution in any other sense than that of the 
unwritten principles of organization. 

"(^) In all the discussions which preceded the passage 
of the Adopting Act, there is no intimation on any 
hand that there was already an authoritative standard 
in existence, but, on the contrary, in the overture which 
led to the Act, it is said, ' As far as I know, .... 
we have not any particular system of doctrines, com- 
posed by ourselves or others, which we, by any judicial 
act of our Church, have adopted to be the articles or 
Confession of our Faith, etc. !N'ow a Church without 
a Confession, what is it like ? It is true, as I take it, 
we all generally acknowledge and look upon the West- 
minster Confession and Catechisms to be our Confes- 
sion, or what we own for such, but the most that can 
be said is that the Westminster Confession of Faith is 
the confession of the faith of the generality of our 
members, ministers, and people ; but that it is our 
Confession, as we are a united body politic, I cannot 
see, unless first it hath been received by a conjunct act 
of the representatives of the Church, I mean by the 
Synod, either before or since it hath been sub forma 
Synodi.' The author of this overture was the Rev. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 127 

John Thompson, who became connected with the 
Presbytery in 1715, about ten years after its first 
meeting, and must have been aware of any act on 
the subject, had such occurred. See this overture in 
Hodge's History of the Presbyterian Church, Part I. 
p. 137." 

Dr. Hodge, in reference to the question whether the 
Presbytery did, from the beginning, regularly and for- 
mally adopt the Westminster Confession, or not, ob- 
serves : " Dr. Green has argued for the affirmative with 
a great deal of force, and has rendered it highly 
probable that the first page contained some statement 
of the principles, both as to doctrine and discipline, on 
which the Presbytery was formed. It is certain that 
they had ' a constitution' to which they could appeal, 
and to which their members promised subjection. In 
a letter written by the Presbytery to the people of 
Woodbridge, in 1712, they say that Mr. Wade 'sub- 
mitted himself willingly to our constitution.' Whether 
this constitution was a written document, or a formal 
recognition of the standards of the Church of Scotland, 
or whether the passage quoted merely means that Mr. 
Wade had submitted himself to the acknowledged 
principles of Presbyterianism, cannot be certainly de- 
termined. The a 'priori probability is in favor of the 
supposition that the first page of the minutes contained 
some general recognition of the standards of the Church 



128 PRESBYTERY 

of Scotland, as all the original members of the Presby- 
tery, as we have every reason to believe, except Mr. 
Andrews, had already adopted those standards at the 
time of their ordination." 

Dr. Hodge, after admitting (for reasons already given 
in Dr. Baird's statement) that the question — was it 
customary for the Presbytery, at the time of its organi- 
zation, to i^equire a formal assent to the Westminster 
Confession as a condition of membership ? must be an- 
swered in the negative, proceeds to say : — 

" The question whether the Westminster Confession 
was uniformly adopted by new members, as before re- 
marked, is one of subordinate importance. The Church 
did not become Calvinistic by adopting that Confession, 
but adopted it because it already was so, and always 
had been. Its demands were in no respects altered, 
much less w^ere they raised by the Act of 1729. That 
act was nothing more than a measure, arising out of 
the altered circumstances of the Church, designed to 
accomplish a purpose which had hitherto been attained 
by other means. The 'New England Puritans were not 
stricter Calvinists in 1640, when they adopted the Cam- 
bridge platform, than they were in 1620, nor had they 
become more rigid in 1688, when they recognized the 
Westminster Confession. No historical fact of the same 
kind admits of clearer proof, from their origin, decla- 
rations, and acts, than that the founders of our Church 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 129 

were Calvinists, and that they demanded Calvinism, 
and not merely faith in the absolutely essential doc- 
trines of the gospel, as the condition of ministerial com- 
munion. 

" The next subject of inquiry is the form of discipline 
adopted, during the period under review. If, as has been 
proved, all the original members of the Presbytery, 
except one, were Presbyterian ministers from Scotland 
or Ireland, and if all the congregations, unless the first 
church in Philadelphia be partially an exception, were 
composed of Presbyterians, as has also been shovs^n,* 
then there can be little doubt that, at least at the 
beginning, whatever it may have become afterwards, 
our Church was a Presbyterian Church 

" Whatever these men really were, they thought 
themselves Presbyterians. It is the name which they 
adopted. They call their judicatory, not an association 
or council, but a Presbytery, they always speak of 
Presbyterians as being ' of our persuasion.' In cor- 
respondence with the judicatories of Ireland and Scot- 
land, they called themselves Presbyterians, to those 
who were accustomed to affix a definite meaning to the 
term." 

" [N'o little anxiety," says the Pev. William Henry 

* The church at Woodbridge was not one of the original congre- 
gations. 



130 PRESBYTERY 

Foote,* '' has been felt and expressed about tbe original 
component parts of the first Presbytery, that of Phila- 
delphia, and what interpretation of the Confession of 
Faith they may have given. The discussion has been 
animated, and from the circumstantial evidence col- 
lected, the inference general that they did put a strict 
construction on the Articles of our Faith. The facts 
just related about Francis Makemie and the Presbytery 
that ordained him, are sufficient to justify our belief 
that the man that took the Solemn League and Cove- 
nant, as the candidates of the Presbyteries in Ireland 
then did, put a strict construction on the Articles of 
the Confession, and the following facts, that the year 
before the Presbytery was formed, he brought over, 
from a visit to his native land, two ministers from the 
province of Ulster, John Hampton and George Macnish, 
who formed part of the first Presbytery — men educated 
as he had been, in trouble, and made to choose Presby- 
tery in the face of great opposition and suffering — will 
set the matter at rest. Three other ministers soon fol- 
lowed. It is not likely that such a man as Makemie, 
with two others of like spirit, would have agreed to 
form a doubtful Presbytery to please Mr. Andrews and 
the Church in Philadelphia, provided they wished such 
a Presbytery, of which there is no evidence, as there 

* Sketches of North Carolina, pp. 118-19. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 131 

were ministers enough to form a decided and strict one, 
without going to Philadelphia, the church of which 
city was weaker than the church at Snow Hill in 
Maryland. 

" The Solemn League and Covenant first framed by 
John Craig, and called Craig's Confession, or the first 
National Convention of Scotland, and subscribed by 
the leaders of the people, December 3, 1557, and sub- 
scribed by King James and household, and the nation 
generally in 1581 ; enlarged and signed again in 1588 ; 
and again in 1638 enlarged, and made to consist of three 
parts — the first, the old Covenant by Craig, — the second, 
condemning Popery, by Johnston of Warriston, — third, 
the application of the whole to the present time, by 
Alexander Henderson, and signed by the people at 
large in 1638 ; and again remodelled by Henderson, and 
adopted in August, 1643 ; and also by the Westminster 
Divines and the Parliament of England, September 25th 
of the same year, and in the Spring of 1644 by the 
Churches of Ireland, and continuing to this day a bind- 
ing instrument in Scotland, and making a part of their 
printed Confession and Discipline, and also acknowl- 
edged as binding to this day by a large number of the 
descendants of the Scotch and Irish emigrants to 
America — leaves no rational doubt what views of the 
Confession of Faith those that lived so near the times 
of the grand national subscription of 1643 and 1644 



182 PRESBYTERY 

must have had. In matters of conscience thej had 
heen accustomed to resist the king, they bound them- 
selves by this solemn oath to do it, and this Solemn 
League was inseparably connected with their doctrinal 
creed and form of Church government, which were 
strictly Presbyterian." 

In addition to what has already been stated, in 
proof that the organization of the Presbytery was 
strictly Presbyterian, we have the evidence that candi- 
dates for the ministry were carefully tried as to their 
learning and soundness in the faith, and required to 
"submit themselves to the judgment and discipline of 
the Church according to Presbytery." — Minutes^ 1710, 
p. 19, and passim. Sessions also were organized and 
deacons appointed, and in their own language, they 
maintained "Presbyterian government and Church 
discipline as exercised by the Presbyterians in the best 
Reformed Churches, as far as the nature and constitu- 
tion of this country will allow." — {Minutes, 1721, p. 68.) 
By Presbyterians in the best Reformed Churches, must 
be understood those of Scotland, Ireland, France, and 
Holland, and what the Presbyterianism was is not a 
matter of dispute. Their government and discipline 
our fathers adopted, " as far as the nature and constitu- 
tion of this country would allow," that is, they con- 
formed to them in everything which did not arise out 
of the peculiar local circumstances of the foreign 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 133 

churches, either as civil establishments, or as controlled 
and fettered by the State. The Minutes of the Presby- 
tery, moreover, show, on every page, that it exercised 
in their fullest latitude all the powers pertaining to such 
a body as defined in our present constitution, that no 
congregation could settle or dismiss a pastor without 
its permission ; that it could and did dismiss pastors 
without the consent of their congregations ; that it ex- 
ercised every other power exercised at the present day 
by a Presbytery over a congregation, as that of erect- 
ing new churches, dividing congregations, appointing 
supplies, etc., etc. "It is only asking then," as has 
well been observed, " that the founders of our Church 
should be regarded as sane and honest men, when it is 
asked that they should be regarded as a Presbyterian, 
and not as a Congregational or nondescript body." 



134 PRESBYTERY 



CHAPTER YI. 

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE PRESBYTERY. 

Letter to Connecticut. 
In 1708 a letter was written to certain ministers in 
Connecticut, asking their influence for the settlement 
of " the confusions and distraction arising from the 
accession of Mr. Wade to be the minister of Wood- 
bridge." It speaks of the object of the formation of 
the Presbytery, — " for the furthering and promoting 
the true interests of religion and godliness." It de- 
clares, " It is our universal desire to walk in the nearest 
union and fellowship with the churches in those parts 
where you inhabit, not knowing any difference so 
weighty as to inhibit such a proposal, nor doubting of 
your cordial assent thereto." 

Letter to Coldin. 
March 26, 1708, Mr. Makemie, by order of Presby- 
tery, wrote to Alexander Coldin, minister of Oxam, 
Presbytery of Jedburgh, Scotland, giving an account 
of the state of the Dissenting Presbyterian interest in 
and about Lewestown, and signifying the earnest desires 
of that people for him to come and be their minister. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 135 

The following letters show the clearness wnth which 
the work of missions was recognized as the specific 
business of the Church. 



An Appeal to the Churches in London. 

"May, 1709. 
*' To Sir Edmund Harrison : 

" Honorable Sir : The distressed condition of these 
Provinces, with respect to religion, in which the pro- 
vidence of God has cast our lot, has moved us to apply 
to the Reverend Ministers of Boston, in !N^ew England, 
to join with us in addressing yourself, and other chari- 
table gentlemen in London, to consider the state of these 
countries, and to implore your help and assistance for 
promoting the interest of our glorious Lord. To our 
great satisfaction they have readily complied with our 
desire, and have drawn up and signed a letter parti- 
cularly directed to yourself. And that we for our parts 
may not be wanting, being informed of that public ex- 
cellent spirit in you, famed both for piety and prudence, 
do likewise address ourselves unto your honour upon 
the same account. The negotiation began and en- 
couraged by a fund, in the time when our worthy 
friend Mr. McKemie (now deceased) was with you, for 
evangelizing these colonies, was a business exceedingly 
acceptable to a multitude of people, and was likely to 
have been of great service if continued, which makes 



136 PRESBYTERY 

US mucli grieved that so valuable a design was, so soon 
after its beginning, laid aside. The necessity of carry- 
ing on the same affair being as great, if not greater now, 
than it was then, we hope that our patriots (patrons ?) 
in London will revive so good and important a work, 
and not let it lie buried under the ashes, but that some 
suitable method will be taken that it may be set on 
foot again. Unto whom can we apply ourselves more 
fit!}' than unto our fathers, who have been extolled in 
the Reformed Churches for their large bounty and 
benevolence in their necessities ? We doubt not, but 
if the sum of about two hundred pounds per annum 
were raised for the encouragement of Ministers in these 
parts, it would enable Ministers and people to erect 
eight congregations, and ourselves put in better circum- 
stances than hitherto we have been. "We are at present 
seven Ministers, most of whose outward affairs are so 
straitened as to crave relief, unto which, if two or three 
more were added, it would greatly strengthen our in- 
terest, which does miserably suffer, as things at present 
are among us. Sir, if we shall be supplied with Min- 
isters from you, which we earnestly desire, with your 
benevolence to the value above said, you may be assured 
of our fidelity and Christian care in distributing it to 
the best ends and purposes we can, so as we hope we 
shall be able to give a just and fair account for every 
part of it to yourself and others, by our letters to you. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 137 

It is well known what advantages the missionaries from 
England have of us, from the settled fund of their 
Church, which not only liberally supports them her^, 
but encourages so many insolences both against our 
persons and interests, which sorrowfully looking on, 
we cannot but lament and crave your remedy. That 
our evangelical affairs may be the better managed, we 
have formed ourselves into a Presbytery, annually to 
be convened at this city, at which times it is a sore 
distress and trouble unto us, that we are not able to 
comply with the desires of sundry places, crying unto 
us for Ministers to deal forth the word of life unto them ; 
therefore we most earnestly beseech you, in the bowels 
of our Lord, to intercede with the Ministers of London, 
and other well-affected gentlemen, to extend their 
charity and pity to us, to carry on so necessary and 
glorious a work, otherwise many people will remain in 
a perishing condition as to spiritual things. In so 
doing, your humble supplicants shall ever pray that the 
blessings of God's throne and footstool may be con- 
ferred upon you and them." — Ministers^ 1709, p. 16. 

Letter to the Presbytery of Dublin. 

"The Presbytery met at Philadelphia, to the Rev. 
Presbytery of Dublin, wisheth grace, mercy, and peace, 
the bond of fellowship, and prosperity in the Gospel of 
the Lord Jesus. 

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" Bev. and Bear Brethren in the Lord: By a letter from 
Eev. Mr. Alexander Sinclare, a member of your society, 
dated ^N'ovember, 1709, and directed to Mr. John Henry, 
one of our number, we find you desire a correspondence 
may be settled and continued from time to time, than 
which nothing can be more acceptable to us poor scat- 
tered and far-dispersed laborers in our Lord's vineyard. 
As also you desire an account of our ecclesiastical 
affairs, and promise all the assistance yourselves can 
afford or procure by interest from others. The former 
we are ready to give, and for the latter we are grateful. 

"As to the state of the church in these parts, our inte- 
rest truly is very weak, and we cannot relate this matter 
without sorrow of heart, since it is too much owing to 
the neglect of Ministers at home. Our late Rev. Brother, 
Mr. Francis McKemie, prevailed with the ministers of 
London to undertake the support of two itinerants for 
the space of two years, and after that time to send two 
more upon the same condition, allowing the former 
after that time to settle, which, if accomplished, had 
proved of more than credible advantage to these parts, 
considering how far scattered most of the inhabitants 
be. But, alas, they drew back their hand, and we have 
reason to lament their deficiency. Had our friends at 
home been equally watchful and diligent as the Episco- 
pal society at London, our interest in most foreign 
plantations probably might have carried the balance. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 139 

In all Yirginia there is but one small congregation at 
Elizabeth River, and some few families favouring our 
way in Rappahannock and York. In Maryland only 
four, in Pennsylvania ^Ye^ and in the Jerseys two, which 
bounds, with some places of ISTew York, make up all 
the bounds we have any members from, and at present 
some of these be vacant. J^ot Ions: aofo there was a 
probability of doing more good in Maryland before 
Episcopacy was established by law, and at present in 
Pennsylvania, the East and West Jerseys, and some 
places of l^ewYork, if the occasion also be not slipped. 
As for ecclesiastical affairs in other places, we shall not 
here trouble you with, being not perfectly acquainted 
therewith ourselves. That then. Reverend and dear 
Brethren, which at present we would humbly, for the 
sake of Christ's interest, make the subject of an address 
unto you is, that of your zealous Christian and religious 
charity, to the mystical body of the blessed Jesus, you 
would raise one sixty pounds to support an able, well- 
approved of young man from yourselves as an itinerant 
in these parts, among the dispersed children of God for 
a year, after which time we doubt not but he may be 
settled comfortably. This we have used our interest 
in London for, in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Calamy, 
which we expect, according to promise from the Rev. 
Mr. Sinclare, you will use yours also to forward, and 
in the meantime not be wanting to answer our former 



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request. Thus, not making the least doubt but this our 
letter shall have the desired answer, we subscribe our- 
selves, by our representative, your well-wishers in the 
Lord:'— Mi7iutes, 1710, p. 19. 

Letter to the Synod of Glasgow. 

" September, 1710. 
"The Presbytery met at Philadelphia, to the Right 
Reverend Synod of Glasgow: 

" Bight Reverend, — Hoping you are in part acquainted 
with the circumstances of our interest in these Ameri- 
can ^plantations, and persuading ourselves of your readi- 
ness to contribute both by advice and other ways for 
the general good of Christianity in these poor neglected 
provinces, we have unanimously judged it (knowing 
none so proper to apply unto, and repose our confidence 
in, as yourselves, our Reverend Brethren of the Church 
of Scotland, whom we sincerely honour and affection- 
ately esteem as fathers) our duty, for strengthening our 
interest in the service of the gospel, to address you for 
your concurrence with us in so great and good a work. 
We are not a little encouraged in these our applications 
by a letter from the Rev. Mr. James Brown, of Glasgow, 
one of the members of the Rev. Synod (to some of our 
good friends) of your willingness to correspond with us, 
in what concerns the advancement of the Mediator's 
interest in these regions where our lot is fallen. We 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 141 

have, for some years past, formed ourselves into a Pres- 
bjterial meeting, annuall}'' convented at the city of 
Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, and to our capacities 
(considenng our infancy, paucity, and the many oppo- 
sitions and discouragements we have all along strug- 
gled with), taken what care we could that our meeting 
(though small) might be for the general good of religion 
in these parts. And we are thankful that by the Divine 
Providence our endeavors and poor essays have not 
been altogether in vain. The number of our ministers 
from the respective provinces is ten in all, three from 
Maryland, five from Pennsylvania, and two from East 
Jersey. And we are in great expectation that some 
from other places may be encouraged to join us here- 
after. We have thought good further to represent to 
the Rev. Synod, the desolate condition of sundry vacant 
places who have applied to us for a supply of ministers 
who express their Christian desire of enjoying the pub- 
lic administrations of the gospel purely, but to their 
and our grief they are not in a capacity to provide a 
competent maintenance for the support of ministers 
without being beholden to the Christian assistance of 
others, at least for some time. We are sorry in our 
present circumstances we can neither answer their re- 
quests by supplying them with ministers nor contri- 
buting towards their outward support, some of our- 
selves being considerably straitened. May it therefore 



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please the pious and Rev. Synod, in compassion to the 
desolate souls in America, perishing for want of vision, 
to send over one or more ministers, and to support them 
for longer or shorter time. This will be a work very 
worthy of persons of your character, a strengthening to 
us and our interest, and a matter of singular comfort 
to all the sincere lovers of our Lord Jesus Christ. We 
further represent that, according to the best of our 
judgment, forty pounds sterling, annually paid in Scot- 
land, to be transmitted in goods, will be a competency 
for the support of each minister you send, provided 
that of your pious and Christian benevolence you suit- 
ably fit them out. And after they have here labored 
in the Lord's vineyard a year or tv/o, we are in good 
hopes that they will find such comfortable encourage- 
ment as may induce them to settle among us without 
giving you further trouble for their support. Thus 
recommending ourselves and affairs to your Christian 
concern and hearty prayers, expecting your ready con- 
currence with us in these representations and desires 
for the public good and interest of the gospel, and 
praying for the rich blessing of Heaven upon your- 
selves, and success in your undertakings for Christ's 
Church, we remain your affectionate brethren and fel- 
low-laborers in the work of the Lord." — Minutes^ 
1710, p. 20. 



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Letter to Dr. Tong. 

Ill 1710, the Rev. George Macnish, Moderator of the 
Presbytery, by their order wrote a letter to the Rev. 
Dr. Tong, of London, which has been lost, but which 
was doubtless to the same effect as the others,, an appeal 
for men and money. 

From London there came back a cheering response, 
for which the Presbytery expressed their gratitude in 
the warmest terms. In 1712, Thomas Reynolds en- 
gaged, for the ensuing year, to advance thirty pounds 
for missionary labor within the bounds of the Presby- 
tery, promising, according to his capacity, to do what 
he could to serve them in after years. " I should be 
glad," he says, " to be an instrument of disappointing 
any that can encourage no expectation from us." The 
aid was seasonable ; it proved " the relief of some weak 
congregations," unable to maintain their own ministers. 

" The appeal to the Presbytery of Dublin cannot be 
traced to immediate results. The records are unfor- 
tunately lost. But it is evident from the minutes of 
the Synod of Ulster that efforts were made to send 
missionaries to the Presbytery of Philadelphia. 

" The letter to the Synod of Glasgow was presented 
by James Brown, April 3, 1711, and produced a power- 
ful effect. April 5th it was resolved that the Com- 
missioners of the Synod carry the matter to the General 
Assembly, ' it being a matter that concerns the whole 



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Church.' But the Assembly's Committee on Overtures 
decided that it was not wise at that juncture to bring 
it before the Assembly. Accordingly, October 2d, the 
Synod reconsidered the matter, and referred to the 
several Presbyteries to see what they were willing to 
contribute ' in making up a fund in order to sending of 
one or more ministers to those parts.' The next day 
the several Presbyteries reported contributions amount- 
ing to £538 Scots, and a treasurer, Mr. Gray, was 
appointed to receive these and further contributions. 
April 1, 1712, the Presbytery of Glasgow reported that 
they had ' pitched upon one Robert Donaldson, preacher 
of the gospel, who is ready to go to Pennsylvania upon 
the first occasion,' and the treasurer was directed to 
pay him £40. But for some unknown reason he failed 
to go. In the next year, April 7, 1713, the Presbytery 
of Glasgow reported that ' they had sent Robert 
"Witherspoon to Pennsylvania to labor in the work of 
the gospel in those parts, and they gave him £40 ster- 
ling, to fit him out conformable to the Synod's order.' 
Robert Witherspoon was received by the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia, and after examination by a committee, 
was ordained and installed as pastor at Apoquiuimy, 
May, 1714. A7ner. Fresh. 168-9. 

" It is proper to add that the Rev. Thomas Reynolds, 
of London,* wrote to Cotton Mather, June 9, 1715, ' I 

* Mather MSS. Am. Antiq. Soc. 



OF PHILADELPMA. 145 

must now acquaint you that Mr. McMsh has not been 
forgotten by me, who have endeavored, upon all 
occasions, to solicit the concern of the foreign planta- 
tions, and have stirred up my brethren to counteract the 
designs of the missionaries. Endeavors have been used 
and much time spent for this purpose. The society 
proceeds, and is not without hopes of gaining bishops 
to be sent into his majesty's plantations.' He urges 
that an agent be sent over, and that if Mr. Mc^ish 
or any other can send anything which may afford 
matter of further remonstrance to the society, we pray 
he will do it with all expedition, and with authentic 
testimonials." 

Note. — Sir Edmund Harrison, mentioned with others 
in the preceding correspondence, as feeling a deep inte- 
rest in the cause of Presbyterianism in the Colonies, 
was a Presbyterian layman, in London, of well-known 
benevolence and extensive influence. He was one of 
the managers of the Presbyterian Fund from 1694-97, 
and was also a member of the Society for the Propaga- 
tion of the Gospel in ^^ew England. " Mr. Reynolds 
was a remarkable pleader for the cause and interest of 
Christ, and especially for poor Ministers in the country, 
and God gave him in a liberal manner the hearts and 
purses of his people (Eastcheap Chapel), they making 
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(Salter's Hall excepted) for many years." {History of 
Protestant Dissenting Congregations in London^ MSS. 
III., Dr. Williams's Library, London.) Dr. Tong 
(spelled Tongue in the Records of the Presbytery) was 
pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Salter's Hall. 
" He was a minister of considerable qualifications and 
ministerial abilities. He was greatly useful in his 
day, and served a large congregation, which was the 
richest in London. For many years their contribu- 
tions for country Ministers exceeded any other, and is 
very large, if not the largest still. Mr. Tongue had a 
large share in their esteem, and for many years obtained 
from them considerable gifts for poor Ministers and 
congregations, as well as private Christians in distress." 
{Extracts from the History of Protestant Dissenting Con- 
gregations^ 1772, MSS. HI., Dr. Williams's Library, 
London.) 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 147 



CHAPTER YII. 

RELATION OF THE PRESBYTERY TO THE SYNOD. 

As the relation of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, in 
the extent and exercise of its powers, to the Synod of 
Philadelphia (as also that of the other Presbyteries 
belonging to the Synod) was somew^hat peculiar, as 
compared with the relation which now exists between 
Synods and Presbyteries, some explanation of the dif- 
ference is required. 

On this subject. Dr. Hodge, after show^ing that the 
original Synod of our Church exercised the power of 
review^ and control over presbyteries and congregations, 
of receiving and deciding appeals, references, and com- 
plaints, and of general supervision and direction, pro- 
ceeds to say : — 

" It exhibits as perfect an example of regular Presby-^ 
terian discipline as is presented by any body of Chris- 
tians at the present day. There are, however, several 
respects in which that Synod differed, in its modes of 
action, from what is now common among us. In the 
first place, it had a commission annually appointed, 
which was clothed with all the powers of the Synod. 
To this commission all items of business which could 



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not be dispatched during the sessions of Synod, were 
referred. To them all applications were made, which 
required immediate attention. They could suspend, 
censure, or dismiss ministers, decide appeals and refer- 
ences, and in short do all that the Synod itself could 
do, and from their decisions there was no appeal. 
Their records were regularly presented to Synod, and 
that body could correct anything which they thought 
had been done amiss. Every one knows that this was 
in imitation of the commission of the General Assem- 
bly in Scotland, as it continues to the present day. 
* 4f * * -x- 

" A second particular in which the first Synod dif- 
fered from ours was the frequent appointment of plenipo- 
tentiary committees." 

After giving instances of such committees, selected 
from the minutes of the years 1717 to 1728, stating that 
many examples of a similar kind might be taken from 
the records of subsequent years, and observing that this 
mode of proceeding, though so different from our 
method of conducting Synodical business, is in perfect 
accordance with that in vogue in Scotland, Dr. Hodge 
adds : — 

" The great distinction, however, between the 
original Synod and ours, is, that the former exercised 
all presbj^terial powers. They examined and received 
new members, ordained, dismissed, suspended, or 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 149 

deposed ministers, regulated the affairs of congre- 
gations, and in short did everything within their 
whole limits, that any Presbytery might properly 
do within its own. Thus, in 1718, it is recorded 
that, ' Mr. William Tennent's affair being transmitted 
from the committee (of bills and overtures) to the 
Synod was by them fully considered, being well 
satisfied with his credentials, and the testimony of 
some brethren here present, as also they were satis- 
fied with the material reasons which he ofiered con- 
cerning his dissenting from the established church in Ire- 
land, being put to a vote it was carried in the affirmative 
to admit him a member of Synod.' On the following 
page it it stated that ' Mr. Samuel Young, minister of the 
gospel, presenting his credentials from the Presbytery 
of Armagh, met at Donaghmore in the County Down 
in the kingdom of Ireland, to this synod, they were 
cordially approved, and he admitted a member, nem. 
con.'' In the same year Messrs. Clement and Steward, 
probationers, presented their credentials, which were 
approved, and calls having been handed in for them 
from the eastern shore of Maryland, the Synod ap- 
pointed Messrs. Davis, Hampton, and Thompson, and 
such members of the presbytery of ^N'ewcastle as they 
might choose to call to their aid, to ordain them. The 
same year Mr. Hampton petitioned to be dismissed 
from his pastoral charge, which was granted, and his 



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church declared vacant by the synod. Li 1720, Mr. 
Orme presented his testimonials and was admitted a 
member of synod. Mr. John Morehead applied for 
admission, and was refused. The complaints made by 
the elders of the church of Eehoboth against their 
pastor were entertained, and he suspended by the Synod 
ad interim^ and the whole matter referred to a committee 
of their own body. In 1726, a call from Donegal for 
Mr. Anderson was presented to the Synod, and by them 
handed to him for his acceptance. In 1728 various 
charges were presented by a people against their pastor, 
which were examined ; from most of them he was 
acquitted, while others were referred to his presbytery 
for further examination. These are only a few of the 
examples which might be selected of the exercise of 
presbyterial powers by the synod. All this is very 
different from anything we are accustomed to, but it is 
in perfect accordance with the Scotch system. The 
explanation is to be found in the following provision of 
the Book of Polity: "These assemblies (viz., synods) 
have the whole power of the particular elderships 
(presbyteries) of which they are collected."* It ap- 
pears, then, that the original Synod of our Church not 
only exercised all the powers which are now recog- 

* Calderwood, p. 109. Eldership Is tlie old Scotch name for 
presbytery, and is described as consisting ' ' of pastors, doctors, and 
such as we call elders, that labor not in word or doctrine." 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 151 

nized as belonging to such bodies, but that it went 
much farther, conforming in various respects to the 
Scottish model, in points in which we have long dif- 
fered from it. 



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CHAETER YIII. 

SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE LEADING (DECEASED) MINISTERS 
WHOSE NAMES APPEAR ON THE ROLL OF THE PRESBY- 
TERY.* 

Rev. William Tennent, Sr., was born in Ireland in 
1673. It is probable that he received his education at 
Trinity College, Dublin, as he belonged originally to 
the Episcopal Church of Ireland, in which he took 
orders. After his arrival in this country, he was re- 
ceived, September 17, 1718, into the Synod of Phila- 
delphia. In ]S'ovember following he went to East 
Chester, 'New York, where he continued, probably as a 
stated supply, for about eighteen months. In May, 
1720, he removed from thence to Bedford, Westchester 
County, ^. Y., and took charge of the church at that 
place, of which he was pastor till August, 1726. After 
leaving Bedford, he went to preach at Bensalem and 
Smithfield, in Bucks County, Pa. Subsequently, and 
soon after, but at what precise date it is not easy to de- 
cide, he accepted a call from the church at ^eshaminy, 

* This list would have gladly been made more full and complete 
had the size of the volume admitted of such enlargement. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 153 

in the same county, where he remained till the close of 
his life. He had two congregations, distinguished as 
the Upper and Lower. Soon after his removal to N"e- 
shaminy, being deeply impressed with the importance 
of a well educated as well as pious ministry, he estab- 
lished a school at which young men might acquire the 
requisite qualification for the sacred office.* Mr. Ten- 
nent died at his own house in Neshaminy, May 6, 1745, 
aged seventy -three. A writer in the May number of the 
Assembly^ s Magazine^ for the year 1805, says of him : 
"He was eminent as a classical scholar. His attain- 
ments in science are not so well known, but there is 
reason to believe that they were not so great as his skill 
in language. His general character appears to have 
been that of a man of great integrity, simplicity, in- 
dustry, and piety." 

Jonathan Dickinson, D.D., was born in Hatfield, 
Mass., April 22, 1688. He graduated at Yale in 1706, 
and in 1708 was installed pastor of the First Presb}^- 
terian Church in Elizabethtown, ^N". J. Of this church 
he was for nearly forty years the joy and glory. Octo- 
ber 22, 1746, he was appointed the First President of 
]N'ew Jersey College. He died October 7, 1747, aged 
fifty-nine. His last words were : " Many days have 

* Appendix X. 
11 • 



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passed between God and mj soul, in which I have sol- 
emnly dedicated myself to Him, and I trust what I 
have committed unto Him He is able to keep until that 
day." Dr. Dickinson was a most solemn, weighty, and 
moving preacher, a uniform advocate of the distin- 
guishing doctrines of grace, industrious, indefatigable, 
and successful in his ministerial labors. His person 
was manly and of full size, his aspect grave and solemn, 
so that the wicked seemed to tremble in his presence. 
As a friend of literature, he was also eminently useful. 
His writings possess a very high degree of merit. The 
most important are his " Discourses on the Reasonable- 
ness of Christianity," and on the " Five Points," in an- 
swer to Whitby. An octavo volume of his works was 
published at Edinburgh in 1793. 

Francis Alison, D.D., was born in the parish of Lac, 
County of Donegal, Ireland, in the year 1705. He 
came as a probationer to this country in 1734 or '35. 
He is said to have h"ad an academy at Thunder Hill, 
Maryland. He was ordained pastor of I^ew London, 
by New Castle Presbytery, before May, 1737. Li 1749 
he was invited to take charge of the Philadelphia 
Academy. This institution was erected into a college 
in 1755, at which time Mr. Alison was appointed its 
Yice-Provost and Professor of Moral Philosophy. He 
was also assistant minister of the First Presbyterian 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 155 

Church. Both these positions he filled with acknow- 
ledged fidelity and success. In 1758 he received the 
degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of 
Glasgow. He was the first of our ministers who re- 
ceived that honor, and the Synod of Philadelphia 
returned their thanks for the favor to the University. 

Eev. Gilbert Tennent, the oldest son of Rev. Wil- 
liam Tennent, of ^N'eshaminy, was born in the County 
Armagh, February 5, 1703, was educated by his father, 
and was licensed by Philadelphia Presbytery in May, 
1725. He received in the Fall the degree of A.M., 
from Yale. In the Autumn of 1726, he was installed 
pastor of the Church at ITew Brunswick, ^. J. For 
some time he was the delight of the pious, and was 
honored by those who were destitute of religion. But 
when God began to bless his faithful labors to the 
awakening of secure sinners, and to their conversion 
from darkness unto light, he presently lost the good 
opinion of false professors, and his name was loaded 
with reproaches. But he bore all with patience. 
Though he had sensibility to character as well as 
others, yet he was willing to incur disgrace rather 
than neglect preaching the Truth, however offensive 
to the sinful, whom he wished to reclaim. 

Towards the close of the year 1740, and in the be- 
ginning of the year 1741, he made a tour in 'New Eng- 



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land, at the request of Mr. Whitefield. An astonishing 
efficacy accompanied his labors. Visiting various 
towns, he was everywhere remarkably useful. In this 
tour, the dress in which he commonly entered the 
pulpit was a greatcoat, girt about him with a leathern 
girdle, while his natural hair was left undressed. His 
large stature and grave aspect added a dignity to the 
simplicity, or rather rusticity, of his appearance. 

In 1744 Mr. Tennent removed to Philadelphia and 
took charge of the Second Congregation. " Here," 
says Webster, " his feet were blistered in travelling the 
streets and visiting such numbers of distressed souls. 
He called on Franklin to point out suitable persons 
from whom to solicit aid in erecting a house of worship. 
The philosopher told the ' enthusiast' to call on every- 
body ; he did so, and built the church." In 1753, Mr. 
Tennent, at the request of the Trustees of ]^ew Jersey 
College, went to England to solicit funds for that in- 
stitution. After a life of great usefulness, he died, in 
much peace, about the year 1765. 

As a preacher, few equalled Mr. Tennent in his 
vigorous days. His reasoning powers were strong, his 
expression nervous and often sublime, his stj^le flowery 
and diffusive, his manner of address warm and pathetic, 
such as must convince his audience that he was in 
earnest, and his voice clear and commanding. In a 
word, all things conspired to make him a judicious, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 157 

zealous, popular, and pungent preacher. With ad- 
mirable dexterity he detected the bold presumer, dis- 
covered the vanity of his confidence, and exposed the 
formal hypocrite to his own view. 

Mr. Tennent took an active part both in dividing and 
uniting the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Whitefield and 
he were connected in their views and labors. The limits 
and the preaching of Whitefield were strictly Calvinis- 
tic, but he indulged a severity in speaking of those who 
he supposed departed from the spirit of evangelical 
truth, as well as an impetuosity in his general conduct, 
in early life, which, with a candor that did him the 
highest honor, he afterwards both condemned and re- 
formed. This too was precisely the system and char- 
acter of Mr. Tennent. The union of two such ardent 
spirits was calculated to urge them further than either 
would otherwise have gone. The evil was greatly aug- 
mented by the opposition which they had both met 
with. Whitefield was so coldly or so harshly treated by 
a great part of his own church, that he more readily asso- 
ciated with other denominations of Christians and par- 
ticularly with the Presbyterians. They, at this time 
and especially in this country, were strictly Calvinistic 
in their creed, but there were many, both among the 
clergy and the laity, who, there was too much reason 
to believe, were little better than mere formalists in 
religion. All these, without exception, were violently 



158 PRESBYTERY 

opposed to Whitefield and to Tennent, who supported 
him, and they in their zeal probably represented a 
number of prudent and pious men, who only wished to 
raioderate their vehemence, as possessing no better char- 
acter than those who at heart were enemies to the 
truth. The consequence of all this was that in a short 
time the Synod of Philadelphia was split into two 
parts, each of which erected itself into a separate Synod, 
and for several years treated each other with great 
severity and censoriousness. After some time, however, 
good men on both sides became sensible of the error 
they had committed, and especially Mr. Tennent, as he 
had been principally concerned in promoting the sepa- 
ration, novv^ labored with the greatest zeal and industry 
to heal the breach. His longest and most elaborate 
publication, entitled, " The Peace of Jerusalem^'' was 
upon this subject. l!Tor did he labor without success. 
The Synods were again happily united in the year 
1758, and both parties having profited by the contro- 
versy, the Church at large was probably preserved in 
greater purity, peace, and order than if no alienation 
had ever taken place. The whole transaction served 
strongly to mark and illustrate the character of Mr. 
Tennent, in whom an ardent love to what he conceived 
to be the truth, always triumphed over every other con- 
cern, over all considerations, of a merely personal 
kind. He was the head of his party both in receding 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 159 

and advancing, and he was prepared to do either, with- 
out fear or hesitation, just as he thought the interests 
of truth and piety required. 

Mr. Tennent's congregation, who were much devoted 
to him, placed a monumental stone over his grave in 
the broad aisle of his church, which his friend Dr. 
Finley inscribed with an epitaph in classic Latin. 

The publications of Mr. Tennent were numerous. 
The earliest seems to have been a sermon preached in 
]N'ew York in March, 1734; in 1735, "A Solemn 
Warning to a Secure World from the Grod of terrible 
majesty, or, the Presumptuous Sinner detected, his 
Pleas considered, and his Doom displayed," to which is 
added the life of his brother, the Rev. John Tennent ; 
"The IsTecessity of Religious Violence to Durable 
Happiness," preached at Perth Amboy, June 29, 1735, 
two sermons on the nature^ and necessity of sincere 
sanctification, contrition, and an acceptable appreciation 
of a suffering Saviour, preached at ISTew Brunswick in 
July and August, 1736. A volume of his sacramental 
discourses was printed in Boston, in 1739 ; his sermon 
on an *' Unconverted Ministry," in 1740 ; on the 
" Priestly Office of Christ," preached at 'New Bruns- 
wick, in 1741 ; on the death of Captain Grant in 1756 ; 
on " Public Fasting," in 1749 ; on " Religious Zeal," 
in 1750 ; on the " Duty of being Quiet," and at the 
opening of the Synod, in 1759. He was struck by 



160 PRESBYTERY 

lightning, and the eagerness of some to proclaim it as a 
judgment led him to preach a sermon and print it on 
the " Righteousness of the Scribes/' in 1740 ; his Mora- 
vian Sermons, in 1742 ; " The Examiner Examined," in 
1743 ; on a thanksgiving, and on another public occasion, 
and a third on Admiral Matthews' victory, in 1744 ; 
on the success of the expedition against Louisburg, in 
1745. He published, in 1746, a volume of twenty- 
three sermons on important subjects, embracing " Man's 
Chief End," " The Divine Authority of the Scriptures," 
" The Divine Attributes," and " The Trinity." 

Samuel Blair, D.D., was a son of Rev. Samuel 
Blair, of Fagg's Manor, Pennsylvania. After gradu- 
ating at the College of [N'ew Jersey with honor, in 
1760, he acted as tutor in the college from 1761 to 
1764. In 1764, he was licensed by the Presbytery of 
'New Castle. In 1766, he was ordained, and installed 
pastor of the Old South Church in Boston. He re- 
mained in this position only a year, his health giving 
way. After leaving Boston he retired to Germantown, 
Pennsylvania, where he passed the remainder of his 
life. The estimation in which Mr. Blair was held may 
be judged by the fact, that when Dr. Witherspoon de- 
clined the first invitation to Princeton, the Trustees 
elected Mr. Blair President of the College, although 
not over twenty-six years of age. Hearing that a 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 161 

change had taken place in Dr. Witherspoon's feelings, 
Mr. Blair, with remarkable self-sacrifice, declined the 
appointment. Mr. Blair was of medium size, of fair 
and ruddy complexion, and decidedly a fine-looking 
man. The University of Pennsylvania honored him 
with the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1790. He 
died in 1818. Dr. Blair was a man of polished man- 
ners, a superior scholar, a well-read theologian and an 
eloquent pulpit orator. He published two sermons, 
one of which was occasioned by the death of the Rev. 
Dr. John Blair Smith. 

Rev. Chaeles Beatty was born in County Antrim, 
Ireland, between 1712 and 1715. His father died while 
he was a child. He came to Philadelphia in the care 
of his uncle, Charles Clinton, in 1729. He had received 
a classical education in Ireland to some extent. Reach- 
ing manhood he engaged in trade, travelling, as was 
common in those days, on foot or with his pack-horse. 
Stopping at the Log College,* he amused himself by 
surprising Mr. Tennent and his pupils with a proffer 
in Latin of his merchandise. Mr. Tennent replied in 
Latin, and the conversation went on in the same lan- 
guage, with such evidence of scholarship, religious 
knowledge, and fervent piety, that Mr. Tennent urged 

* Appendix X. 



162 PRESBYTERY 

hira to sell what he had, and prepare for the ministry. 
This he consented to do. 

Mr. Beattj was licensed by the Presbytery of Phila- 
delphia, October 13, 1742 ; was called to the Forks of 
IN'eshaminy May 26, 1743, and was ordained December 
14th. The Synod sent him to Virginia and ]^orth 
Carolina in 1754, and he accompanied Franklin when 
he, with Rve hundred men, came up to defend the fron- 
tier, after the burning of the Moravian missionaries at 
Gnadenhuetten, near Lehighton. The corporation for 
the Widows' Fund sent him to Great Britain, in 1760, 
to collect money for its treasury. In 1766 the Synod 
appointed him and the Eev. Mr. Duffield, of Carlisle, 
missionaries to the frontiers of the province for two 
months, and in fulfilling this appointment, the former 
passed along the Juniata, and the latter went through 
Path Valley, Fannet, and the Cove. The Delaware 
town on the Muskingum, one hundred and thirty miles 
beyond Fort Pitt, was visited by them, and they found 
a cheering prospect of a door opening for the spread of 
the Gospel among the Indians. To relieve the College 
of E'ew Jersey, Mr. Beatty sailed for the West Indies, 
but died, August 13, 1772, soon after reaching Bridge- 
town, in Barbadoes. 

John Ewing, D.D. The parents of Mr. Ewing were 
early emigrants from Ireland, and settled in Maryland. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 163 

After graduating at the College of New Jersey in 1754, 
he remained three years as tutor in the college. At the 
age of twenty-six he was employed as instructor of the 
Philosophical classes in the University of Pennsylva- 
nia during the absence of Dr. Smith, the provost, in 
JEurope. In 1758 Mr. Ewing became pastor of the 
First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. In 1773 
he visited Europe, but at the opening of the Eevolu- 
tion, in 1775, he returned to this country, notwith- 
standing the most tempting offers which were made 
to induce him to remain in England. During his visit 
he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity 
from Edinburgh. While abroad he visited Dr. Samuel 
Johnson, nobly defending the cause of his country 
which was violently assailed. After liberally applying 
the terms " rebels" and '' scoundrels" to the people of 
America, Johnson turned rudely to Dr. Ewing, de- 
manding : " What do you know in America ? You 
never read, you have no books there." " Pardon me, 
sir," said Dr. Ewing, "we have read the Rambler.^'' 
The graceful blending of retort and compliment paci- 
fied the savage essayist, and till midnight he sat with 
Dr. Ewing in amiable and genial conversation. In 1779 
Dr. Ewing was appointed Provost of the University of 
Pennsylvania. He w^as one of the most remarkable 
scholars of his day. In classical learning and natural 
science he stood without a rival. In the pulpit he was 



164 PRESBYTERY 

eminently popular among the more cultivated. He died 
September 8, 1802. Dr. Ewing published Part of a 
Sermon on the Death of Dr. Alison. A Sermon on the 
Death of George Bryan, 1791. The Design of Christ 
Coming into the World, in the "American Preacher," 
Yol. II. ; and several communications in the Transac- 
tions of the American Philosophical Society. His Lec- 
tures on E'atural Philosophy were published in 1809. 

James Latta, D.D., was born in Ireland in the 
Winter of 1732. His parents migrated to this country 
when he was about six or seven years of age. He 
graduated at the College of Philadelphia (now the 
University of Pennsylvania), at the first Commence- 
ment of this Institution, and as a proof of his high 
standing there, had assigned to him, on that occasion, 
the Salutatory Oration in Latin. He was tutor in the 
college for a few years, during which he studied the- 
ology under the Provost, Rev. Dr. Francis Alison, and 
w^as licensed to preach the gospel, February 15, 1758, 
by the Presbytery of Philadelphia. He was ordained 
by the same Presbytery in October, 1759, and, by 
direction of Synod, spent some time in a mission to the 
then destitute settlements of Virginia and Carolina. 

Mr. Latta was installed pastor of the congregation 
of Deep Run, in Bucks County, Pa., in 1761, the 
charge of which he resigned in 1770. In !N"ovember, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 165 

1771, he became pastor of the church of Chestnut 
Level, in Lancaster County, Pa. In connection with 
this pastorate, and to aid in his support, he established 
a school, which was acquiring celebrity when its pro- 
gress was arrested by the breaking out of the Revolu- 
tionary War. Subsequently, he took charge of a school 
in the bounds of the congregation for a few years, and 
in it several distinguished men were educated. So 
deep was his interest in the cause of American liberty, 
that once, in the course of the war, when an unusual 
number of his people were drafted to serve in the 
militia, with a view to encourage them, he took his 
blanket and knapsack, like a soldier, and actually ac- 
companied them on their campaign. At another time 
he served for a while in the army as a Chaplain. 

Dr. Latta labored on in the ministry until very near 
the close of his life. He died January 29, 1801. As a 
teacher^ he was remarkably well qualified. As a schola?-, 
he had few equals, his erudition was general and pro- 
found. As a man^ he was truly amiable and upright. 
As a Christian and minister, he was exemplary to a re- 
markable degree. As a preacher, he maintained a high 
rank. His naturally strong and penetrating mind was 
well furnished by reading and study, his style of writ- 
ing was accurate and vigorous, and his manner in the 
pulpit was grave and impressfve. For upwards of forty 
years he labored faithfully in the vineyard of the Lord. 



166 PRESBYTERY 

Rev. John Brainerd was a native of East Hacldam, 
Conn., and was the brother of David Brainerd. He 
graduated at Yale in 1746, and, his brother's health 
failing, he was appointed by the Correspondents of the 
Scottish Society to take his place as a missionary among 
the Indians. He came to Elizabethtown, E". J., and, 
having been examined by 'New York Presbytery on the 
13th, he went the next day to the Indians at Cranbury. 
He was ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia 
early in 1748. 

Mr. Brainerd travelled to the Forks of Delaware and 
to Wyoming several times, to induce the Indians to 
leave their unsettled life and dwell near him. ITum- 
bers came, from time to time, but he succeeded in 
doing little more than civilizing them. In 1751 he 
had some special success, and in October, 1752, he had 
forty families near him, and thirty-seven communicants. 
There were fifty children in the school. In the same 
year, with only one attendant, he spent a fortnight on 
the Susquehanna. Their horses were stolen, the guide 
was too lame to go on foot, and they remained three 
days where there was no house. That year, also, the 
General Court of Connecticut, on the petition of the 
Correspondents, granted a brief for a general collection 
to aid him in his school. 

In 1755 Mr. Brainerd retired from the Society's 
service as a missionary, and in 1757 took charge of the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 167 

congregation in IS'ewark. Here he remained but a little 
while, for, in 1759, he resumed his mission among the 
poor Indians. 

Mr. Brainerd resided for some time at Mount Holly. 
He had a meeting-house there, which was burned by 
the British in the Eevolutionary War. Seven other 
places were regularly and frequently visited by him. 
The Synod, in 1767, granted him twenty pounds, be- 
sides his salary, for " his extraordinary services in 
forming societies and laboring among the white people 
in that large and uncultivated country." The grant was 
renewed the next year, for his extensive services and 
labor in those uncultivated parts. From 1760 to 1770 
he received from the congregations between Egg Har- 
bor and Manahawkin fifty-nine pounds, nineteen shil- 
lings, though he had preached to them five hundred 
times. , He continued to supply these numerous vacan- 
cies, and the annual allowance of twenty pounds was 
promised by the Synod for that service. In 1773 it 
was increased to twenty-five pounds. The next year he 
gaj^e an account of his labors and prospects of success, 
and the interest of the Indian Fund was reserved for him. 
In 1777 he removed to Deerfield, and preached there 
till his death, March 18, 1781. His remains repose 
beneath the floor of the Deerfield Church. The Eev. 
Dr, Field, who was for many years minister of the 
congregation in w^hich Mr. Brainerd's parents resided, 



168 PRESBYTERY 

says: "The tradition in Haddam is that he was as 
pious a man as his brother David, but not equal to him 
in ability." 

Dr. James Sproat was born at Scituate, Massachu- 
setts, April 11, 1722. He graduated at Yale College. 
Being converted under a sermon of Gilbert Tennent, 
he resolved to enter the ministry. His first pastoral 
charge was the Congregational Church at Guilford, 
Connecticut, where he remained for twenty-five years. 
On the decease of Gilbert Tennent he was called to suc- 
ceed him in the Second Church of Philadelphia at the 
close of the year 1768. Here he remained till his death, 
October 18, 1793, in the seventy-second year of his age. 
He fell a victim to the yellow fever, which was then 
desolating Philadelphia, and he would not desert his 
post. Dr. Sproat was a ripe scholar, a well-read divine, 
and an amiable man. He was highly esteemed in the 
judicatories of the church as a weighty counselor, and 
his name is found on the most important committees. 
His only publication was a "Sermon on the Death of 
Whitefield." He was the last clergyman who appeared 
in public with cocked hat and wig. (Sprague's "An- 
nals," III. 125.) 

George Duffield, a native of Pennsylvania, gradu- 
ated at the College of l^ew Jersey in 1752, and acted 
as tutor in the college from 1754 to 1756. He was 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 169 

licensed to preach by the Presbytery of l^ew Castle, 
March 11, 1756, and in 1759 he was settled over a Pres- 
byterian Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1766, 
by order of the Synod, in company with Eev. Charles 
Beatty, he made a missionary tour through Pennsylva- 
nia, Maryland, and Virginia. Soon after his return he 
was called to the Third Presbyterian Church in Phila- 
delphia. Dr. Duffield was a strong Whig, and was at 
one time, in connection with Bishop White, Chaplain 
of the Continental Congress. During the dark and 
almost hopeless period of the Revolution he acted as 
Chaplain in the retreat of the army through JSTew Jersey, 
and was at the battle of Princeton. He remained pastor 
of the Third Church in Philadelphia until the day of 
his death, February 2, 1790. The honorary degree of 
Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Yale in 
1785. Dr. Duffield was an eminently devoted Christian 
and a most faithful minister. He took an active part 
in the organization of the Presbyterian Church after 
the Pevolution, and was the first Stated Clerk of the 
General Assembly. He was for thirty years a Trustee 
of the College of New Jersey. Dr. Duffield published 
an account of his tour with Dr. Beatty, and a Thanks- 
giving Sermon on the Restoration of Peace, 1783. 

Rev. JSTathaniel Irwin was born at Fagg's Manor, 
Chester County, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1756. He 
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graduated at Princeton in 1770, along with James (af- 
terward President) Madison. He was ordained over 
Neshaminy Church, l^ovember 3, 1774, and continued' 
there till his death March 3, 1812, in the fifty-sixth 
year of his age and thirty-ninth of his pastorate. A 
shrewd knowledge of human nature and an uncommon 
business tact fitted him to exert a great influence in the 
church courts ; as a proof of which, he was Clerk of the 
old Sjaiod, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1801, 
and the next year Permanent Clerk till 1807. Though 
his manners in private were stiff and unbending, he was 
forcible and pathetic in the pulpit. He was fond of 
music, and was a proficient on that unclerical instru- 
ment, the violin. He was of a scientific turn, and was 
John Fitch's first patron. He also took a lively in- 
terest in local politics, and laid himself open to ani- 
madversion on account of it. For several years he 
held the office of register and recorder of Bucks County. 
He had a powerful voice and a long head, both physi- 
cally and intellectually. His name is the first in the 
list of Moderators without a title. 

Mr. Irwin's remains were deposited, as he desired, at 
the spot in the burying-ground over which the pulpit 
in the original church of !N'eshaminy once stood, and 
on a horizontal marble tablet over his grave is the fol- 
lowing inscription : — 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 171 

Rev. Nathanael Irwin. 

Died March 3d, 1812. 

Aged 65 years, 4 months, 15 days. 

To this sad tomb, whoe'er thou art, draw near, 
Here lies a friend to truth of soul sincere, 

Of manners unaffected, and of mind 

Enlarged, he wished the good of all mankind ; 

Calmly he looked on either life, for here 

His peace was made, and nothing left to fear. 

Rev. Kathan Grier was born in Backs County, Pa., 
September, 1760. He graduated at the University of 
Pennsj^lvania in 1783, studied theology under the di- 
rection of his elder brother, the Rev. James Grier, 
of Deep Run, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia in 1786, and in the same year accepted 
a call from the Forks of Brandywine, Chester County, 
Pa., and was installed as their pastor in 1787, in which 
relation he continued until the end of his life. 

Mr. Grier was an able and faithful minister. His 
judgment was sound and discriminating, and his talents 
as a preacher eminently popular. He spoke as one who 
believed and felt the force of divine truth, and the 
weight of ministerial responsibility. In all his rela- 
tions as a pastor, a citizen, an ecclesiastic, and a man, 
he was earnest in his endeavors to know what was 
right, and inflexibly firm in his adherence to it. As 



172 PRESBYTERY 

the Presbyterian Church in America had not then pro- 
vided theological seminaries, and students in theology 
availed themselves of the libraries and instructions of 
the pastors of churches, as they had opportunity, the 
estimation in which Mr. Grier was held as a pious, able, 
and successful minister of the gospel, induced many to 
avail themselves of his direction and aid. Twenty- 
seven years he served the congregation of the Forks of 
Brandy wine with fidelity and success, until, having 
finished the work which was assigned him, he was 
summoned from his labors on earth to a glorious re- 
ward in heaven. He died March 31, 1814. 

Egbert Cathcart, D.D., was born IRovember, 1759, 
near Coleraine, Ireland. He was educated in the Col- 
lege of Glasgow, and after being licensed preached 
several years without a fixed charge, till 1790, when he 
emigrated to the United States, and was received into 
the Presbytery of Philadelphia. Declining other over- 
tures, he was settled October, 1793, over the united 
churches of York and Hopewell, Pa., fifteen miles 
apart, which he served on alternate Sundays. When 
the infirmities of age told on him, he relinquished the 
Hopewell Church, commonly known as the York 
Barrens. In 1839 he was forced to resign the York 
Church also, after a pastoral connection of forty-six 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 173 

years. He expired suddenly, October 19, 1849, at the 
advanced age of ninety years. 

Dr. Cathcart was an instructive, doctrinal preacher, 
fond of expository preaching as well as of lecturing on 
the Catechism. After preaching Sunday morning in 
the Barrens, he has been known to ride home and 
deliver in York one of his interesting lectures on the 
Shorter Catechism. He paid great attention to ex- 
amining his flock in the Barrens (both young and old) 
on the Catechism. He was regarded as a well-read 
theologian, and kept abreast with the knowledge of the 
times. He was especially remarkable for his clock- 
work punctuality, whether as trustee of Dickinson 
College, as member of the Synod of Philadelphia, or in 
attendance on the General Assembly. He never missed 
a meeting of the Synod but once, and that was occa- 
sioned by sickness. For twenty years he served as one 
of the clerks of the Assembly. He was so constant in 
his attendance, whether a commissioner or not, that 
Dr. Green once called him the standing representative 
of his Presbytery. 

Although Dr. Cathcart was consulted by other au- 
thors, he never gave anything to the press but one 
sermon, which was a tribute to the memory of his 

friend Dr. Davidson, of Carlisle. 

« 

AsHBEL Green, D.D., LL.D., was born at Hanover, 
Morris County, K J., a son of the pastor, Rev. Jacob 



174 PRESBYTERY 

G-reen. In 1778, at the age of sixteen, he was teacher 
of a school, but dismissed it and entered the army. He 
was promoted, young as he was, to be orderly sergeant 
in the militia. Becoming infected with skepticism, 
he was cured of it by the study of the ^ew Testament. 
He entered the junior class half advanced, and gradu- 
ated at Nassau Hall, in 1783, with the highest honors. 
Mr. Green held the office of tutor in the college for 
two years, and was then appointed to the Chair of 
Mathematics and ISTatural Philosophy, which he retained 
for a year and a half. In February, 1786, he was 
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of !N'ew Bruns- 
wick. In May, 1787, he was settled as colleague of 
Rev. Dr. Sproat, in Philadelphia, and the same year 
was elected a member of the American Philosophical 
Society. In 1792 the University of Pennsylvania con- 
ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and 
the same year he was elected Chaplain to Congress, and 
was re-elected by every successive Congress till the 
removal to Washington. Dr. Green was one of the 
chief instruments in founding the Theological Seminary 
at Princeton. In August, 1812, he was elected Presi- 
dent of the College, and in the same year received the 
degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of ^orth 
Carolina. Dr. Green occupied the Presidential Chair 
until 1822, when, on account of increasing infirmity, he 
resigned. He immediately took up his residence in 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 175 

Philadelphia, and became the editor of the Christian 
Advocate^ a monthly religious magazine. The work 
was continued through twelve volumes, in which the 
editor displayed the fertility of his active, well-dis- 
ciplined mind, the extent of his learning, the acuteness of 
his critical powers, and his devotion to the interests of 
the kingdom of Christ. In 1824 Dr. Green was elected 
Moderator of the General Assembly. In 1846 the Old 
School Assembly met in Philadelphia, and the venerable 
man was led in. The whole Assembly rose to do him 
honor, and the Moderator, Dr. Hodge, welcomed him, 
to which Dr. Green responded. He was conducted to a 
chair placed for him under the pulpit, but was able to 
remain only a short time. The last regular sermon 
preached by him was in the African Church at Prince- 
ton, July 16, 1843, in his eighty-second year. On the 
14th of May, 1848, he was found dead in the posture of 
prayer. Dr. Green in person was of a medium height, 
but portly, having features well formed, a florid com- 
plexion, enlivened with dark brilliant eyes. His in- 
tellectual powers were of a high order. He was cha- 
racterized by much firmness and decision. His long 
experience and active habits gave him great w^eight in 
the councils of the Church. Scarce an important 
action was taken in which he had not a share. Hew^as 
identified with the history of the Church from the be- 
ginning. He could appropriately apply to himself the 



176 PRESBYTERY 

words, ^^ quorum 'pars magna fid.'' He rejoiced to 
preach the gospel, and his discourses were uniformly 
written. Dr. Carnahan said of him : " He was by 
his talents fitted to fill any station, and by his eloquence 
to adorn the walls of our National Legislature." Dr. 
Janeway regarded him as " the first preacher in the 
Presbyterian Church." Dr. Green's printed works, 
comprising an Autobigraphy, and " Lectures on the 
Shorter Catechism," fill several volumes. 

John Blair Smith was the fourth son of Dr. Eobert 
Smith, of Pequea, Pennsylvania, and was born June 12, 
1756. He graduated under Dr. Witherspoon at eigh- 
teen. He received license from Hanover Presbytery, 
June 18, 1777. He was ordained by the same body 
October 26, 1779. At the early age of twenty-three he 
succeeded his brother, Samuel Stanhope Smith, as Presi- 
dent of Hampden-Sidney College and pastor of the Bri- 
ery Church. During the revival which swept through 
Virginia in 1786 and 1787, Mr. Smith entered into the 
work with such glowing zeal, and his preaching was so 
eloquent and powerful, that his services were in con- 
stant demand at places remote from his residence. In 
1789 he resigned his office in order to give himself up 
wholly to preaching. In 1791 he became pastor of 
the Pine Street Church in Philadelphia, and in 1795 
he was elected the first President of Union College, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 177 

[NTew York, but after presiding over that infant institu- 
tion for three years, he returned to his former charge 
in Philadelphia, and was installed in 1799. He died of 
yellow fever in Philadelphia, August 22, 1799. In 
1798 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 
upon him by Hampden-Sidney and Union Colleges. Dr. 
Smith was one of the most eminent divines and power- 
ful preachers of the day. Like others of his compa- 
triots, he showed his faith by his works, and marched 
at the head of his students and other youths of his con- 
gregation in pursuit of the enemy in the lower parts of 
Virginia. He exerted also a great influence in opposi- 
tion to Patrick Henry in preventing the unequal taxa- 
tion and assessment of the Presbyterian Churches in 
Virginia. His only acknowledged publication was a 
sermon entitled : " The Enlargement of Christ's King- 
dom, the Object of a Christian's Prayers and Exertions," 
delivered in the Dutch Church, Albany, before the 
E'orthern Missionary Society of l^ew York, 1797. Dr. 
Smith was the Moderator of the General Assembly in 
1798. 

William Latta, D.D., was the second son of the 
Rev. James Latta, D.D., of Chesnut Level, Lancaster 
County, Pa. He was born in Bucks County, Pa., in 
May, 1769. He graduated at the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and taught for some time in that institution. 



178 PRESBYTERY 

He studied theology with his father, in connection with 
two of his brothers. He was licensed by the Presby- 
tery of Philadelphia, and in 1798 he was ordained and 
installed, by the same Presbytery, over the, Great Yalley 
Presbyterian Church, Chester County, Pa. In this 
church he continued until his death, which occurred in 
February, 1847, thus ministering to the same people for 
well nigh half a century. 

Dr. Latta was an exemplary Christian, an able 
preacher, and a faithful pastor. He was a close stu- 
dent, and seldom entered his pulpit without thorough 
preparation. On all occasions he zealously and fear- 
lessly declared the whole counsel of God. He was one 
of the founders of the Theological Seminary at Prince- 
ton, and acted for many years, with great fidelity, as a 
director of that institution. He was justly held in high 
esteem by his brethren in the ministry, and during the 
troublous times in the church, which resulted in its 
separation, he was selected by his Presbytery for several 
consecutive years as one of its commissioners to the 
General Assembly. Dr. Latta's death was one of pecu- 
liar privilege. Like that of the devoted Payson, it was 
eminently triumphant. It was literally a translation 
from "glory to glory." A memorial sermon of him 
was preached by the Rev. John McDowell, D.D., and 
subsequently published. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 179 

Jacob J. Janeway, D.D., was born in IsTew York, 
J^overaber 20, 1774. He graduated at Columbia Col- 
lege in 1794, and studied theology with the celebrated 
Dutch divine, Dr. Livingston. He was ordained col- 
league of Dr. Green, in the Second Presbyterian Church, 
Philadelphia, in 1799. For thirteen years they worked 
together in unbroken harmony. When Dr. Green was 
made President of the College of E'ew Jersey, Dr. 
Skinner was chosen colleague to Dr. Janeway. In 
1816, Dr. Skinner, with fifty of the members, parted, 
to build up a new enterprise, the Arch Street Church. 
In 1818, Dr. Janeway was elected Moderator of the 
General Assembly. In 1828 he accepted a professor- 
ship in the new Theological Seminary at Allegheny, 
Pa., but relinquished it in a year, in consequence of 
property difiiculties. In 1830 he was installed over 
the First Dutch Reformed Church, in ^ew Brunswick, 
Is". J., which position he held only two years, on 
account of ill health. In 1833 he was appointed Vice- 
President of Rutgers College. This post he resigned 
on reuniting with the Presbyterian Church. From this 
time forward he took no heavier burdens on himself 
than serving in the Boards of the Church and of 
Princeton Seminary, and also as .Trustee of l^assau 
Hall. In the discharge of these duties he was un- 
surpassed for assiduity and punctuality. His death 
occurred June 27, 1858, in the eighty-fourth year of 



180 PRESBYTERY 

his age. As a preacher, Dr. Janeway was didactic and 
methodical, avoiding the flowery paths of rhetoric. 
On all public occasions, he acquitted himself creditably. 
His figure was portly and his countenance benevolent. 
He was singularly self-poised and unimpassioned. 
When the tornado of 1837 blew his chimneys down 
and twisted his old elms, he merely said to the assem- 
bled crowd, in his usual imperturbable manner, "This 
has been a considerable blow." 

James P. Wilson, D.D., was born in Lewes, Del. 
He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, in 
1788. He acted, for some time, as Surveyor-General 
for the State of Delaware. He was admitted to practice 
at the Bar. The unexpected death of his wife, and the 
assassination of his brother before his eyes, made such 
an impression of the importance of eternal things that 
he quitted the law for the pulpit. He was ordahied 
pastor of the Lewes Church, as successor of his father, 
in 1804. In 1806 he accepted a call from the First 
Church in Philadelphia. In May, 1828, he retired to 
his farm, a little south of the village of Hartsville, 
Bucks County, about twenty miles from the city, on 
account of the infirm state of his health, preaching, 
nevertheless, to his congregation as often as his health 
permitted. For some years before his death his in- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 181 

firmities compelled him to preach sitting on a high 
chair in the pulpit. His resignation of his pastoral 
Charge was accepted in the Spring of 1830. 

Dr. Wilson was characterized by a few eccentricities, 
but they were overlooked, or only excited a smile, in 
view of his sterling worth. As a preacher, he was per- 
fectly deliberate and unimpassioned, handling the most 
abstruse subjects in a masterly manner, speaking for an 
hour without the least assistance from notes, yet draw- 
ing on the stores of a memory replete with recondite 
learning, especially of the Greek and Latin Fathers. 
He was regarded as one of the most learned divines of 
the day. He was of a tall and lank figure, and pallid, 
from a habit of blood-letting. His published works 
consisted of " Occasional Sermons," a " Hebrew Gram- 
mar without Points," " Lectures on the New Testa- 
ment," an edition of Ridgley's " Body of Divinity, 
with ]!^otes," treatises on Church government, on which 
subject he held some peculiar notions, etc. Dr. Wil- 
son's remains are buried in a spot selected by himself, 
in the graveyard of ]^eshaminy Church, near the tomb 
of the celebrated William Tennent, the founder of the 
" Log College." On his monument is the following 
inscription: — 



182 PRESBYTERY 

James P. Wilson, D.D. 

Born February 21, 1769. Died December 9, 1830. 

Placida hie pace quiesco, Jacobus P. Wilson, per 
annos bis septein coraposui lites, sacra exinde dog- 
mata tractans. Quid sum et fui, jam noscis, 
viator. Quid, die suprema, vi debis. Brevi quid 
ipse futurus, nunc pectore versa. Natus, 1769. 
Obiit, 1830. 

For the benefit of the reader who is not familiar with 
the Latin language, this may be translated thus:— 

" Here I, James P. Wilson, rest in calm peace. Dur- 
ing fourteen years I practised law, thenceforward 
treating of sacred themes, is'ow, traveller, you know 
what I am and have been. What I am about to be, 
on the last day you will see. 'Now dwell, in your mind, 
on what you yourself will be in a short time." 

Eev. Joseph Eastburn was a preacher to seamen in 
Philadelphia. He died January 30, 1828, aged seventy- 
nine. Many thousands attended his funeral. At the 
grave Dr. Green delivered an address. When Mr. East- 
burn began to preach to seamen, about 1820, " we 
procured," he said "a sail loft, and on the Sabbath 
hung out a flag. As the sailors came by, they hailed 
us, • Ship ahoy V We answered them. They asked us, 
' Where we were bound V We told them, ' to the port 
New Jerusalem, and they would do well to go into the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 183 

fleet ? ' ' Well,' said they, ' we will come in and hear 
your terms.' " This was the beginning of the Mariners' 
Church. Mr. Eastburn was eminently pious, devoted 
to the salvation of seamen, and extensively useful. 

Archibald Alexander, D.D., LL.D., was born near 
Lexington, Virginia, April 17, 1772. His classical and 
theological studies were pursued under the direction of 
the Rev. William Graham, of Liberty Hall, afterwards 
Washington College. He was licensed at the early age 
of nineteen, and on expressing his diffidence. Presbytery 
assigned him for a text : " Say not I am a child" (Jer. 
i. 7). After spending a year or more in missionary 
labor, according to the rules of the Synod, he was or- 
dained and installed pastor of Briery Church, jN^ovember 
7, 1794. In 1796 he was chosen President of Hampden- 
Sidney College, at the age of twenty-four. May 20, 
1807, he was installed over Pine Street Church, Phila- 
delphia. In the same year, being thirty-five, he was 
elected Moderator of the General Assembly, and in his 
sermon made the suggestion of a Theological Seminary. 
In 1812 he was appointed Professor in the Theological 
Seminary just established at Princeton. Here he re- 
mained for the rest of his life, moulding, during forty 
years, the studies and characters of two generations of 
ministers. His name was widely known in other lands, 
as well as our own. 



184 PRESBYTERY 

Dr. Alexander died October 22, 1851. His precious 
remains were deposited in the cemetery at Princeton, 
in the presence of a group such as had seldom been 
gathered in one spot in any part of our land. There 
were the Students and Faculty of the College of l^ew 
Jersey, and those of the Theological Seminary, the 
entire Synod of JTew Jersey, and many members of the 
S^^iods of IsTew York and Philadelphia, besides a crowd 
of other spectators, a numerous company of God's min- 
isters and people, all feeling that a great man in Israel 
had fallen. 

As a preacher. Dr. Alexander was equalled by few 
and surpassed by none. There was a charm in his 
ministrations that no one who ever heard him can for- 
get. His unique and inimitable manner, so simple, so 
vivacious, so earnest, was sure to rivet the attention. 
His discourses were replete with instruction drawn 
fresh from the fountain of wisdom. He had the rare 
faculty of making didactic and familiar topics interest- 
ing, even to persons of no religion, for his sermons 
partook of the vitality and freshness of his mind, which 
was like a perennial fountain sending off its sparkling 
waters. He also possessed the capacity of exciting re- 
ligious emotion in a most remarkable degree. He could 
set forth the gospel in its adaptation to the endlessly 
diversified states of human feeling with a skill and 
effect truly wonderful. And the facility with which 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 185 

he could awaken emotions of gratitude, praise, contri- 
tion, joy, and the like, gave him a rare control over 
any Christian auditory. Another element of his power 
in the pulpit was his earnest sympathy with his kind. 
He never sank the man in the philosopher, nor the 
citizen and patriot in the divine. His sterling common- 
sense formed a bond of union between himself and his 
fellow-men, which neither his scholastic pursuits nor his 
high spiritual attainments ever weakened or tarnished, 
but, above all, his eminent piety was the source of his 
great power as a preacher, and in all the spheres he 
occupied, it was to his character what the soul is to the 
body — the pervading, life-giving, governing principle, 
and it would be difficult to speak of him in any of his 
relations or pursuits without recognizing the fact of his 
singular attainments in holiness. It was his rare for- 
tune to maintain an unsullied reputation for superior 
piety, wisdom, benevolence, and consistency, through- 
out a ministry of nearly sixty years. 

Dr. Alexander's published writings are too numerous 
to recite here. We may only mention " History of the 
Colonization Society," "Evidences of the Christian 
Religion," " Thoughts on Religion," " Counsels to the 
Aged," " Practical Sermons," all of which are of much 
interest and value. He also published numerous tracts, 
and was a frequent contributor to the Princeton Re- 
view. 

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186 PRESBYTERY 

Thomas H. Skinner, D.D., LL.D., was born near 
Harvey's Neck, ITorth Carolina, graduated at the Col- 
lege of 'New Jersey in 1809, was licensed to preach the 
gospel at Morristown, IN". J., December 16, 1812, and 
ordained and installed pastor of the Second Presbyte- 
rian Church in Philadelphia, as colleague to Dr. Jane- 
way, on June 10, 1813. He was pastor of the Fifth 
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, from 1816 to 1832, 
when he became Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in An- 
dover Theological Seminary. From 1835 to 1848 he 
was pastor of the Mercer Street Presbyterian Church 
in New York City, and in 1848 he was appointed Pro- 
fessor of Sacred Rhetoric, Pastoral Theology and 
Church Government in the Union Theological Semi- 
nary, J^ew York, which position he retained and 
adorned to the close of his life. He received the de- 
gree of D.D. from Williams College in 1826, and 
LL.D. from the College at Marietta, 0., in 1855. He 
died February 1, 1871, in the eightieth year of his age. 

Dr. Skinner, whilst highly esteemed as a man of 
literary culture and mental power, commanded in a 
peculiar degree the love of those with whom he came 
in contact. His artless simplicity, his courtesy, his 
piety and unworldliness, distinguished him even among 
good men, and strongly attracted the affections of those 
with whom he came in contact. He was a prominent 
leader of the New School party in the Church, but re- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 187 

joiced in the reunion. As a preacher his style bore 
marks of culture and polish, not elaborate or artificial, 
but natural and easy. The sword of the Spirit was not 
so wrapt up in the flowers of rhetoric as to hide its 
point. On the contrary, his ministry was accompanied 
by numerous and powerful revivals. He w^as regarded 
as one of the best sermonizers in America. As a pro- 
fessor he was as much at home in the teacher's chair 
as he was in the pulpit. His students both respected 
and loved him. 

Dr. Skinner's published works are: 1. Religion of 
the Bible ; 2. Aids to Preaching and Hearing ; 3. Re- 
ligious Liberty ; 4. Hints to Christians ; 5. Thoughts 
on Evangelizing the "World ; 6. Religious Life of 
Francis Markoe; 7. Yinet's Pastoral Theology and 
Homiletics, which he translated and edited with IsTotes ; 
8. Discussions in Theology ; and numerous discourses. 

Rev. James Patterson was born March 17, 1779, in 
Backs County, Pa. He struggled through poverty and 
difficulty to acquire an education, and graduated at 
Jefferson College in 1804, at the age of twenty-five. 
After acting some time in Princeton as a tutor, he was 
settled as pastor of Bound Brook Church, E". J., June, 
1809. January 11, 1814, he was installed over the 
First Church, I^orthern Liberties, on Buttonwood 
Street, Philadelphia, where he continued till his death. 



188 PRESBYTERY 

^N'ovember 17, 1837, aged fifty-nine. Here his ministry 
was astonishingly successful and attended with nume- 
rous revivals. In the twenty-three years of his pastorate 
there were one thousand seven hundred and ninety ad- 
ditions to the communion. 

Tall and prophet-like, a John Baptist in severe de- 
nunciation, the thunders of the law lost nothing in his 
hands. Eough and uncouth in his manner, he was 
suited to his location. He resorted to odd methods to 
attract people to church by placards and advertise- 
ments. He was well read, but no logician. Plain, 
pointed, nnadorned, quaint, filled with a burning and 
indefatigable zeal, Father Patterson was the preacher 
of the masses. 

Erza Styles Ely, D.D., was born in Lebanon, Conn., 
June 13, 1786. He graduated at Yale College in 1803, 
pursued his theological studies under the direction of 
his father, Pev. Zebulon Ely, was licensed in 1804, and 
ordained by West Chester Presbytery pastor of Col- 
chester (Congregational) Church, Conn., in 1806. He 
was taken from this charge to act as Chaplain to the 
'New York City Hospital. In 1813 he was installed 
pastor of the Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, as suc- 
cessor of Dr. Alexander, removed to Princeton, but his 
strong anti-Hopkinsian tenets led to the division of the 
Church. His activity in all schemes of charity and 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 189 

benevolence was boundless. Jefferson Medical College 
owes its existence, in a great measure, to him, as one of 
its Trustees, for, in its pecuniary straits, he bought the 
lot and erected the building where the institution now 
stands. From 1825 until 1836 he was Stated Clerk of 
the General Assembly. In 1828 he was chosen Mode- 
rator of the General Assembly. 

In 1834 his enthusiasm led him to embark as an 
active patron of Marion College, in Missouri. It was 
started as a manual labor college, and the products of 
the land belonging to the institution were expected to 
defray all expenses. A large number of students was 
collected, but, finally, the scheme failed of success. In 
1844 Dr. Ely took charge of the Church of the J^orthern 
Liberties, Philadelphia. He retained this post till 
struck down by paralysis, August, 1851. His death 
occurred June 18, 1861. 

Dr. Ely was of a mercurial temperament, which was 
never completely overcome, in or out of the pulpit. 
^o one went to sleep under his preaching. It has been 
estimated that he was the means of the conversion of 
two thousand two hundred persons. He was a generous 
and open-hearted man. There is good reason for be- 
lieving that his benefactions during his lifetime 
amounted to nearly $50,000. 

His published works were, " Visits of Mercy," " The 
Contrast," " Collateral Bible," Memorial of his father, 



190 PRESBYTERY 

and the religious weekly, The Fhiladelphian. He wrote, 
also, a "History of the Churches of Philadelphia," 
which is in manuscript, and unpublished. 

Thomas Charlton Henry, D.D., was born in Phila- 
delphia, September 22, 1790. He graduated at Middle- 
bury College, with high honors, in 1814. Having 
finished his theological course at Princeton, he was 
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, 
April 17, 1816, but in October following was dismissed 
to join the Presbytery of 'Eqw Castle, by which he 
w^as subsequently ordained. For two successive years 
he performed gratuitously the work of a missionary. 
Several months of this period were passed at Lexington, 
Ky., where he had great popularity as a preacher. In 
I^ovember, 1818, he was installed pastor of the First 
Presbyterian Church in Columbia, S. C. In January, 
1824, he became pastor of the Second Presbyterian 
Church in Charleston, S. C.,and labored in this connec- 
tion during the rest of his life. In 1827 the yellow 
fever prevailed extensively in Charleston, and Dr. 
Henry, feeling that it was his duty to remain with his 
flock as long as Providence might enable him to do so, 
was attacked with the disease. From the beginning of 
his sickness he manifested unqualified submission to the 
Divine will, and he conversed with his friends in the 
most comforting and even rapturous manner, testifying 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 191 

to the power of his Redeemer's love and grace, till he 
had reached the very end of the dark valley. He died 
October 4, 1827. 

From the time of his first appearance in the pulpit 
Dr. Henry took rank among the most popular preachers 
of the day. Besides having a finished elocution his 
discourses were written with great care, and were rich 
in evangelical, practical truth, expressed in a style of 
more than common force and beauty. It was evident 
to all that his ruling passion was to do good, and espe- 
cially to be instrumental in saving the souls of his 
fellow-men, a work in which he was greatly encouraged 
by the blessing of God upon his labors in Charleston. 
In addition to several sermons, he published a little 
volume on " Popular Amusements." His " Letters to 
an Anxious Inquirer," which possess great value, were 
passing through the press at the time of his decease. 

William I^eill, D.D., was born in Western Pennsyl- 
vania in 1778, amid the hardships of frontier life, both 
his parents being massacred by the Indians. He 
graduated at I^assau Hall in 1803. He was ordained 
over the church in Cooperstown, IST. Y., in 1805. In 
1809 he was called to the First Church of Albany, in 
1816 to the Sixth Church of Philadelphia, the seceding 
portion from Dr. Ely's Church. In 1815 he was chosen 
Moderator of the General Assembly. In 1824 he was 



192 PRESBYTERY 

made Presideut of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. 
That position did not prove a bed of roses, and he 
became, in 1829, Secretary of the Board of Education. 
In 1831 he took charge of the Germantown Church, 
and raised it to a flourishing condition. In 1842 he 
retired from all active labors. In 1860 he departed 
this life aged eighty-two years. 

Dr. I^eill was tall, dignified, and very courteous in 
manner. As a writer, his style was perspicuous, and 
even elegant. Dr. D. X. Junkin styled him " the 
venerable and lovely Dr. William I^eill." His piety 
was of a high order. As a college functionary, he 
was conscientious and faithful, and won the respect of 
the students. Besides occasional discourses, he pub- 
lished an exposition of the Epistle to the Ephesians. 

Charles Hodge, D.D., LL.D., was born December 
28, 1797, in Philadelphia, where his grandfather, a 
merchant of Scotch-Irish descent, had settled in 1730. 
His father was Dr. Hugh Hodge, a physician of great 
promise and large practice, who died at the early age of 
forty-three, leaving a widow and two sons. To the 
influence of his mother, a lady of rare excellence and 
endowments, both the distinguished brothers were 
greatly indebted for the mental and moral culture to 
which they owed, under God, much of their fame and 
usefulness. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 193 

The subject of this notice passed his early life in his 
native city. At twelve years of age he commenced his 
classical studies at the academy in Somerville, N". J., 
and afterwards pursued them at a school in Princeton. 
He entered the Sophomore Class of ITassau Hall in 
1812, the year when Dr. Ashbel Green became Presi- 
dent, and immediately took a high standing, and on 
graduating delivered the valedictory oration. During 
a memorable revival in the college in 1815, he, with 
many others (among them Mcllvaine and Johns, after- 
wards Bishops of the Episcopal Dioceses of Ohio and 
Virginia), made a profession of religion. The next 
year the three friends, Hodge, Mcllvaine, and Johns, 
entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, and the 
affectionate intimacy then begun and confirmed, con- 
tinued until their death. Mr. Hodge was licensed by 
the Presbytery of Philadelphia, October 21, 1819, and 
during the winter of 1819-20 preached regularly at the 
Falls of Schuylkill, the Philadelphia Arsenal, and 
Woodbury, IT. J. In May, 1820, he was appointed 
Assistant Instructor in the Original Languages of 
Scripture, in Princeton Seminary, which position he 
held until 1822. He became a member of the Presby- 
tery of 'New Brunswick, July 5, 1820, and continued 
as such all the remainder of his life. Under appoint- 
ment of Presbytery in 1820, he supplied the churches 
of Georgetown and Lambertville for a season, and 



194 PRESBYTERY 

Lambertville and Trenton, First Church (now Ewing 
Church) during parts of the years 1820-23. He was 
ordained sine titulo at Trenton, Il^ovember 28, 1821. 

Dr. Hodge's connection with the Seminary continued 
to the end of his life. In May, 1822, he was elected 
by the General Assembly to the Professorship of 
Oriental and Biblical Literature ; in May, 1840, to that 
of Exegetical and Didactic Theology, and after 1854 
was added to these Polemic Theology. In 1846 he 
was elected Moderator of the General Assembly. In 
1825 he commenced the Biblical Repertory. The same 
year he went to Europe, and spent three years in the 
Universities of Paris, Halle, and Berlin. During his 
absence the Repertory was under the direction of Pro- 
fessor Robert Patton, then connected with the College 
of IN'ew Jersey. In 1829 the name of the work was 
changed to The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review^ 
and its scope was greatly widened. It soon became a 
mighty power in the Presbyterian Church, and con- 
tinued such until the close of its editor's life. 

Dr. Hodge died June 19, 1878, in his eighty-first 
year, with all his family around him, as the setting sun 
glorifying the lower heavens, with the peaceful bright- 
ness of his faith and love. As a Christian Dr. Hodge 
was of the type of John. He was reverent, tender, 
joyous, full of faith and hope and love. As a teacher 
he had great power. As a preacher he was instructive 



OF PHILADELPHIA. . 195 

and edifying. As a controversialist, for forty-five years 
he was characterized by entire fairness, great force, and 
absolute fidelity to truth as he conceived it. Yet, 
though firm and decided in his views, and always ready 
to defend them, he was devoid of all personal animosities. 
By universal agreement he was one of the brightest and 
best ornaments of the Presbyterian Church. 

Among Dr. Hodge's published works are, " Com- 
mentary on the Epistle to the Romans," " Constitutional 
History of the Presbyterian Church in the United 
States," " Way of Life," " Commentary on Ephesians," 
on " First Corinthians," on " Second Corinthians," 
" Systematic Theology," all of which are masterly 
works, and have had a very large circulation. In addi- 
tion to all this, he contributed upwards of one hundred 
and thirty articles to the Princeton Review^ many of 
which, besides exerting a powerful influence at the 
time of their publication, have since been gathered into 
volumes, and as " Princeton Essays," " Hodge's Essays," 
and " Hodge's Discussions in Church Polity," have 
taken a permanent place in our theological literature. 
His " Conference Papers, or Analyses of Discourses, 
Doctrinal, and Practical, Delivered on Sabbath After- 
noons to the Students of the Theological Seminary, 
Princeton, N". J.," have been published since his 
decease. 



196 • PRESBYTERY 

William M. Engles, D.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
October 12, 1797. He graduated at the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1815, studied theology with Dr. S. B. 
Wylie, and was licensed by the Presbytery of Phila- 
delphia, October 18, 1818. July 6, 1820, he was ordained 
pastor of the Seventh or Tabernacle Church, in 
Eanstead Court, afterwards famous as the scene of the 
disruption. Here his ministry was faithful and 
successful, but in 1834 he was obliged to resign on 
account of a diseased throat. From the pulpit he 
stepped into the editorial chair, succeeding Dr. James 
W. Alexander as editor of the '•'' Presbyterian^^'' in which 
post he continued for thirty-three years. Under his 
supervision the paper attained an increased circulation, 
and a high reputation as the leading organ of the Old 
School party. In May, 1838, he was appointed editor 
of the Board of Publication, which post he held for 
twenty-five years. In 1840 he was chosen Moderator 
of the General Assembly, Old School, and then filled 
the office of Stated Clerk for six years. His death 
occurred N"ovember 27, 1867. 

Dr. Engles owed his reputation more to his pen than 
to his pulpit efforts. He was too quiet and didactic to 
be a popular preacher. But to say nothing of his 
editorial success, to him the Board of Publication was 
more indebted than to any other individual, according 
to its own acknowledgment. He took an active part 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 197 

in its inception and progress. He not only rescued 
from oblivion various valuable w^orks, in danger of 
becoming obsolete, but added to the Board's issues a 
number of treatises from his own prolific pen. As 
these v^ere published anonymously they cannot here be 
specified. Mention, however, may be made of the little 
volume entitled, " Sick Room Devotions," which has 
proved of inestimable service, and "The Soldier's 
Pocket Book," of which three hundred thousand copies 
were circulated during the war. 

David McKinney, D.D.,was born in Mifflin County, 
Pa., October 22, 1795, graduated at Jefferson College 
in 1821, and was a student at Princeton Theological 
Seminary over two years. Licensed by the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia, April 22, 1824, he was installed pastor 
of the church at Erie, Pa., April 13, 1825, where he 
labored successfully until he was released from that 
charge January 1, 1828. Subsequently he removed to 
Meadville, Pa., where he taught in Meadville Academy, 
and was a Professor in Allegheny College from October, 
1828, to October, 1830. He was pastor of the churches 
of Sinking Creek and Spring Creek ; Presbytery of 
Huntingdon, 1834-41, and of the Church at Hollidays- 
burg, Pa., 1841-52. 

In 1852 he became founder and editor of The Preshy- 
terian Banner^ located in Philadelphia. In 1855 he 



198 PRESBYTERY 

removed with his paper to Pittsburgh, purchased the 
Presbyterian Advocate and merged the Banner into it. 
In February, 1864, he sold the Banner^ and until 1868 
edited The Family Treasure (afterwards called Our 
Monthly)^ a popular monthly magazine. From 1866 to 
1869 he was a co-editor and proprietor of The North- 
western Presbyterian^ published in Chicago. At the 
same time, in 1866, he was appointed Librarian and 
Treasurer of the Board of Colportage of the Synod of 
Pittsburgh and Allegheny, a position he held until 
1874, and a part of which, the treasurership, he held 
until his decease. He died May 28, 1879, in the firm 
and blessed hope of the gospel. Dr. McKinney was a 
man of decided ability, a sound theologian, an effective 
preacher, a faithful and laborious pastor, a proficient in 
all ecclesiastical affairs, and of admirable business quali- 
fications. He was a clear thinker, a ready debater, a 
vigorous writer, in action bold, earnest, and especially 
persistent, a faithful defender, an honest and loving 
servant of the Church of Christ, a Presbyterian from 
deep and firm conviction of its Scriptural doctrines and 
polity. He was both a Director and Trustee of the 
Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, and 
devoted much time and labor to its interests. 

Joseph H. Jones, D.D., was born in Coventry, Conn., 
August 24, 1797. He graduated at Harvard Univer- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 199 

sity in 1817. For a time he was employed as Tutor in 
Bowdoin College, Maine. He completed his theologi- 
cal studies at the Princeton Theological Seminary, was 
licensed as a probationer, September 19, 1822, by the 
Presbytery of Susquehanna, and was, by the same 
Presbytery, ordained as an Evangelist, April 29, 1824. 
On June 1, 1824, he began his labors in the Presbyterian 
Church at Woodbury, I^. J., and was shortly installed 
as pastor. Here he labored with very great success. 
At the same time he supplied the feeble church at 
Blackwoodtown, which shared the blessing enjoyed by 
that of Woodbury. In 1825 he was installed pastor of 
the Presbyterian Church at 'New Brunswick, IT. J. 
Here he remained thirteen years, proving himself to be 
" a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." His 
ministry was honored of God by at least three seasons 
of religious awakening. In 1838 he became pastor of 
the Sixth Church, Philadelphia, and continued so for 
twenty-three years, his efforts being crowned with a 
manifest blessing. From 1861 to 1868 he was Secretary 
of the Relief Fund for Disabled Ministers, in which 
capacity he did a noble work, for which he deserves 
the lasting gratitude of the Church. He died suddenly, 
as it were with the harness on, December 22, 1868. 

Dr. Jones was an exemplary Christian, an instructive 
preacher, a faithful pastor, an interesting writer, and a 
gentleman of great urbanity of manner and suavity of 



200 PRESBYTERY 

disposition. Of his principal work, "The Effects of 
Physical Causes on Christian Experience," Dr. J. "W. 
Alexander wrote, "It is a valuable and entertaining 
book." He also published a memoir of the Eev. 
Ashbel Green, D.D., a history of the revival at J^ew 
Brunswick, in 1837, and several sermons. 

William S. Potts, D.D., was born in E"orthumber- 
land County, Pa., Oct. 13, 1802. At sixteen he was 
sent to Philadelphia to learn the printer's trade. He 
worked at this some three years, during which time he 
became a professor of religion and determined to enter 
the gospel ministry. For this purpose he began his 
preparatory studies in 1822, under the superintendence 
of Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles Ely. He entered Princeton 
Theological Seminary, 1825. Leaving the Seminary 
in 1827, on account of impaired health, he was imme- 
diately licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and 
took a mission to the South, with instruction to make 
his way to St. Louis, Mo. Travelling on horseback, 
with all his worldly possessions in his saddle-bags, he 
passed through parts of Maryland, Virginia, the Caro- 
linas, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois, till 
May 14, 1828, when he reached St. Louis. That was- 
then a town of less than 5000 people, probably four- 
fifths of whom were of French extraction and E-oman 
Catholic faith. There, however, he found a small Pres- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 201 

byterian Church, which had been organized by Rev. 
Salmon Giddings ten years before, with only nine mem- 
bers, and he immediately began his ministerial work in 
St. Louis in connection with that church, of which he 
was installed pastor in October, 1828. In 1832 a power- 
ful revival, lasting for months, visited his charge, re- 
sulting in the addition to it of 128 members. In 1835 
he became President of Marion College, Mo., w^hich 
post he held till the Summer of 1839, when he received 
and accepted a call to the pastorate of the Second Pres- 
byterian Church of St. Louis, then a new enterprise 
with about sixty members, but which before his death, 
thirteen years afterward, became a large and powerful 
body. 

Dr. Potts was not what men would call great in in- 
tellect, but his clear, cool, logical, and well-balanced 
mind dealt masterfully with whatever came before it, 
and almost invariably led him to wise and just conclu- 
sions. But he was truly great in his unlimited conse- 
cration of all he had and all he was to the service of 
God. He was not a great preacher, but his holy life 
preached the gospel with steady and growing power. 
His preparations for the pulpit were conscientiously 
and prayerfully made, with the single and absorbing 
desire to win souls to Christ and build up the spiritual 
character of believers. His discourses were never bril- 
liant, but they frequently blazed with earnestness. 
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Though no orator, he was often eloquent. His con- 
stant prayer was for more of the Holy Spirit's presence 
and power in himself and his people. In the Winters 
of 1842-43 and 1848-49, his church was powerfully 
revived and largely increased in numbers. In such 
seasons his whole soul was aroused, and he showed 
extraordinary wisdom, energy, and skill in managing 
his church. He was eminently a man of prayer. Fear- 
less, uncompromising, and unswerving devotion to duty 
was a great characteristic of his life in all his relations. 
Always calm, selt-possessed, and dignified, he never 
diminished his power with men by exhibitions of 
temper, weakness, or arrogancy. His influence in St. 
Louis and throughout Missouri grew in potency to the 
end of his life. In the midst of a series of special 
meetings of his church, seeking an outpouring of the 
Holy Spirit, his frail body gave way, and after pro- 
tracted confinement to his bed, he went to be with 
Jesus, on the morning of Sunday, March 28, 1852, 
while th« church bell was ringing for the Sabbath 
school to assemble. 

Eev. William L. McCalla was born in Jessamine 
County, Ky., II^Tovember 25, 1788. He was "a man of 
war from his youth." He seemed to have adopted 
Psalm cxliv. 1, for his motto : " Blessed be the Lord 
which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 203 

fight." At his examination before the Presbytery of 
West Lexington he had a political altercation with the 
venerable Dr. Blythe. In 1815 he was appointed an 
army chaplain by General Jackson. In 1819 he was 
settled as pastor of the church in Augusta, Ky. In 
1823 he was settled over the Eighth or Scots' Church, 
Philadelphia, where his ministry was very successful. 
In 1835 he felt impelled to travel in Texas, and again 
served as an army chaplain, dressing in clerical costume 
and living in a tent. In 1837 he returned to Philadel- 
phia, and labored successively in the Fourth, Taber- 
nacle, and Union Churches. In 1854 he engaged in 
missionary labor in St. Louis among the boatmen, and 
afterwards among the slaves in the South. He died in 
Louisiana, October 12, 1859, in the seventy-first year of 
his age. 

Mr. McCalla was of a tall and commanding person, 
with black hair and eyes and a clarion voice. He was 
more or less familiarly acquainted with the Hebrew, 
Syriac, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and German 
languages. He preached without notes, and had a 
wonderful command of language. But it was in de- 
bate that he excelled. In polemics he was a master. 
This he abundantly exemplified in his debates with Mr. 
Vaughn and Alexander Campbell, Baptists, in Ken- 
tucky, with William Lane, an Arian Baptist, in Milford, 
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204 PRESBYTERY 

Catholic, with Abner Kueeland, the atheist, and with 
Joseph Barker, the infidel, who subsequently preached 
the faith he once labored to destroy. Mr. McCalla's 
only publications were "A Correct IN'arrative" of the 
affairs connected with the trial of the Rev. Albert 
Barnes, a small collection of psalms and hymns in 
French, and " Travels in Texas." 

The late Rev. W. W. Latta, a remote kinsman of 
Mr. McCalla, furnished the following reminiscences of 
him : — 

" When occasion required it he would preach well 
with less preparation than any man I ever knew. 
Some of his most interesting and thrilling discourses 
were preached by request on subjects that were selected 
for him perhaps not more than one hour before he 
entered the pulpit. The master style and delivery of 
his discourses were marked by a singularity which 
made them peculiar to himself. They were in all 
respects strictly his own. He was indeed a man of 
great peculiarities. They ran through his entire life 
and were a marked feature of his character. I have 
been with him at what were called protracted meet- 
ings, when the services were continued for several days 
together ; at such times he often declined to leave the 
church either during the day or night. He carried 
with him a spirit lamp, with an apparatus attached for 
making a cup of coffee, provisions being furnished him 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 205 

by some good Martha of the congregation, and a bed 
was extemporized in one of the pews, and in this waj 
he carried out his wishes of remaining in the sanctuary 
till the services were brought to a close. 

"The conversational powers of this distinguished 
divine were as remarkable as were his efforts in the 
pulpit and on the platform. He was generally the 
centre of attraction in all clerical sociables. He had a 
fund of anecdote that was almost exhaustless, and he 
seemed at home on every topic that might be intro- 
duced. His thoughts were always clothed in the most 
chaste language, which flowed from his lips so copiously 
and smooth as to be likened to water flowing from a 
fountain. There was, moreover, a peculiar sweetness 
in his voice, which lent additional charms to his con- 
versational powers. When he was therefore present in 
classical circles, his brethren preferred rather to listen 
than to talk themselves, much as they are generally 
given to the free use of their tongues. Mr. McCalla 
could talk so well on almost any subject that might be 
brought forward that he was once taken by a fellow- 
traveller in a stage-coach for a politician on his way to 
"Washington. On a sudden display of legal knowledge 
the traveller concluded that he was a judge or an at- 
torney at the bar, and it was with no little astonish- 
ment that he discovered that his politic attorney was a 
clergyman, and could display even more knowledge on 



206 PRESBYTERY 

theology than he had done on politics and law. There 
was no subject he had studied more, and on which he 
loved more to talk, than the subject of prophecy. I 
was in company with him on one occasion, together 
with several other clergymen, when he made a predic- 
tion, founded on prophecy, that has been most marvel- 
ously fulfilled. He said that if he had studied the word 
of God aright, there would be ' a fearful convulsion in 
this country, commencing about the year 1860, and con- 
tinuing for four years, just one Presidential term.' 
The language in quotation marks was precisely that 
uttered by the speaker to the best of my recollection, 
and it was uttered about the year 1846. I have deeply 
regretted since the close of the war that I did not make 
a note of the particular passage on which the predic- 
tion was based, but I regarded it as visionary at the 
time, and it made but little impression on me until 
after its most wonderful verification." 

Eev. John H. Kennedy was born November 11, 1801, 
at "Herron's Branch," Franklin County, Pa. In 
]!^ovember, 1818, he became a student of Jefferson Col- 
lege, Canonsburg, Pa. During his whole collegiate 
course he sustained a high standard as to talents and 
scholarship, and graduated with honor. May, 1820. In 
October of that year he entered the Theological Semi- 
nary of Princeton, where he studied the regular term 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 207 

of three years. He was licensed to preacli in October, 
1822. On leaving the Seminary in 1823 he itinerated 
in different directions about eighteen months. In 
IN'ovember, 1825, he was installed pastor of the Sixth 
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and sustained this 
relation until December, 1829. In May, 1830, he 
accepted the Professorship of Mathematics in Jefferson 
College, and a call from the congregation of Centre, 
about five miles distant from Canonsburg. Subse- 
quently he devoted himself more exclusively in his 
Professorship to the departments of I^atural Philosophy 
and Chemistry. He died December 15, 1840. 

As an instructor Professor Kennedy was thorough, 
discriminating, accurate, and lucid in his illustrations. 
As a preacher he was instructive, solemn, searching, 
and forcible. As a pastor he was laborious and faith- 
ful. As a writer he was characteristically lucid, simple, 
and concise. His talents were various, and in some 
respects of a high order. He had more of the intel- 
lectual than the eesthetic, more of argumentation than 
poetry in his composition, more of the instructive than 
the pathetic. He was a man of great benevolence and 
liberality, and his soul-searching experience, his con- 
scientiousness and stern integrity, his self-denial, his 
steadfast reliance on the righteousness of Christ, his 
abhorrence of sin, his desires and endeavors after holi- 
ness, and his habitual aim to glorify God, gave lucid 



208 PRESBYTERY 

proof of sincere piety while he lived, which was con- 
firmed in his death. 

Rev. William P. Alricks was born in Wilmington, 
Del., in August, 1799. He graduated at the College of 
'New Jersey in 1824. He was Stated Supply at ^ew 
Castle, Del., 1828-29, and at Pigeon Creek. He was 
ordained as an Evangelist by the Presbytery of Wash- 
ington in 1831. He was Stated Supply at East Buf- 
falo, Pa., 1830-1864, and Professor of Mathematics, 
Mechanics, and Astronomy in AVashington College, 
Pa., 1830-1860. He died at Winterset, Pa., December 
31, 1869. Professor Alricks was an able and faithful 
preacher, and stood high in the departments of science 
which he taught. 

Sylvester Scovel, D.D., was born in Peru, Mass., 
March 3, 1796. He graduated at Williams College, in 
1822, and studied theology at Princeton Seminary. 
After his licensure he labored successfully as a mission- 
ary on the Delaware Piver, between Trenton and Phila- 
delphia. He was pastor of the church at Woodbury, ^. 
J., 1825-28. This pastorate was eminently successful. 
His labors extended to a second church at Blackwood- 
town, six miles east of Woodbury, where he was equally 
successful. He left this field in 1828. After preaching 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 209 

six months at Norristown, Pa., he was a missionary in 
Ohio for seven years, during which about three hundred 
made a profession of faith under his ministry. 

In 1836 Dr. Scovel accepted an agency in the West for 
the Board of Domestic Missions. The field assigned 
him was the territory covered by the Synods of Cincin- 
nati, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, in 
which to perform the duties of agent required great 
self-denial and much of the spirit of the gospel. Dr. 
Scovel proved adequate to the demands of the position, 
and his earnest, indefatigable and self-sacrificing labors 
were signally blessed. In the Fall of 1846 he was 
elected President of Hanover College, Indiana, and im- 
mediately after accepting this office became financial 
agent of the Institution, in which capacity he was suc- 
cessful in raising funds for an endowment, towards 
which he contributed liberally himself. Under his 
wise administration of the college it was blessed with 
prosperity. He took special interest in the spiritual 
welfare of the students. Dr. Scovel died July 4, 1849, 
in that serenity of spirit, which was the fruit of God's 
love shed abroad in his heart. To him the cause of re- 
ligion and education in the West owes, under God, much 
of its success. To found and build up churches, schools, 
seminaries, and colleges in that great valley may be 
said to have been the master passion of his soul. 



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George Potts, D.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
March 15, 1802. He graduated at the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1819, the third in his class. After his 
graduation he spent a year in general studies preparatory 
to entering the theological seminary. He joined the 
Seminar}^ at Princeton in 1820, was licensed to preach 
by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1822. He was 
installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church of IN'atchez, 
Miss., at the close of that year, and continued there 
twelve years. Resigning this charge on account of the 
enervating influence of the climate upon him, he 
accepted a call to the Duane Street Church, I:^ew York, 
and was installed as pastor in May, 1836. In 1845 he 
resigned the charge of the church in Duane Street, and 
on l!^ovember 25th was installed pastor of a newly- 
gathered church in University Place. He continued in 
this connection till the close of his life. He died 
September 15, 1864. 

Dr. Potts was a Director of the Theological Seminary 
at Princeton, and a member of the Council of the JSTew 
York University. He never aspired to anything in the 
way of authorship, having published only a few occa- 
sional sermons and addresses. As a preacher he was 
undoubtedly regarded as one of the most attractive of 
his day. His voice was full and clear, his utterance 
distinct and impressive, his gestures simple and grace- 
ful, and the manifest promptings of nature, and his 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 211 

whole manner sucli as were best fitted to give effect to 
the momentous truths he proclaimed. There was in 
his preaching an happy admixture of the doctrinal 
and the practical. He never felt that he had done with 
any truth that he presented until he had not only 
shown its intellectual bearing, but had brought it into 
contact with the conscience and the heart. Though 
his sermons were generally' written, he accustomed 
himself, especially during his latter years, to extem- 
poraneous speaking, and he has been heard to say that 
he had more freedom and comfort in this mode of 
preaching than any other. The interests of his congre- 
gation seemed always uppermost in his thoughts. His 
pastoral visits were a source of mutual enjoyment to 
him and his people, and those who were in the morning 
of life especially shared most largely in his watchful 
regards. Though his tastes were rather for a life of 
quietude than bustle, he was by no means destitute of 
executive ability, nor did he shrink from taking his 
share in guiding and moulding the destinies of the 
Church. In every relation he sustained his pure and 
noble spirit was impressively exemplified. 

Hugh Hamill, D.D., was born at ^orristown, Pa., 
Feb. 28, 1810, was graduated from Rutgers College, 
-IsT. J., in 1827, and studied theology at Princeton and 
iN'ew Haven. Mr. Hamill was licensed by the Presby- 



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terj of Philadelphia, April 30, 1830, taught during 
the following Summer in the boarding-school of the 
Rev. Robert Steel, at Abington, Pa., was ordained an 
evangelist at Buffalo, E". Y., by the Presbytery of Buf- 
falo, Oct. 31, 1832. He was Stated Supply at Black 
Rock (now the Breckenridge Street Church, Buffalo, 
K Y.) from :N^ov. 1, 1830, until ^ov. 1, 1833, then 
began to preach at Elkton, Md., and Pencader Church, 
Del., where he was installed pastor by 'New Castle 
Presbytery, Jan. 21, 1834, and from which he was 
released May 1, 1837, after a highly successful pas- 
torate. From 1837 he was associated, for thirty-three 
years, with his brother, the Rev. Samuel Hamill, D.D., 
as Principal of the High School at Lawrenceville, ]^. J., 
retiring from this position on account of impaired hear- 
ing, which interfered with his duties as an instructor. 
In the Spring of 1873 he removed to J^ewark, Del., 
where he died, Aug. 1, 1881, exhibiting to the last a 
most trustful and submissive spirit. Dr. Hamill was 
retiring and modest, but decided, an accurate, thorough, 
and successful instructor, as a preacher he was clear, 
concise, and forcible, his character was marked by sim- 
plicity, godly sincerity, kindliness of heart, and un- 
swerving integrity. He possessed fine scholarship, and 
his life was pure, noble, and useful. 

James C. Watson, D.D., was born in Donegal Town- 
ship, Lancaster County, Pa., Jan. 27, 1805, graduated 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 213 

at the College of !N"ew Jersey, in 1827, and studied 
theology at Princeton Seminary. He was licensed by 
the Presbytery of Philadelphia, April 22, 1830, was 
ordained by the Presbytery of Carlisle, Oct. 14, 1832, 
and on the same day was installed pastor of the United 
Churches of Gettysburg and Great Conewago. Here 
he labored nearly seventeen years, until he was released, 
August 29, 1849. His next charge was at Clinton, 
]N". J., where he was installed E'ov. 21, 1849, and was 
released Dec. 3, 1850. His third charge was at King- 
ston, N^. J., where he was installed Feb. 19, 1851, and 
was released Oct. 17, 1854. His fourth and last charge 
was at Milton, Pa., where he was installed Dec. 14, 
1854, and continued until he was released by death. 

In the beautiful region of the Susquehanna, where 
Dr. Watson spent the last quarter of a century of his 
life and ministry, he acquired a wide and great in- 
fluence. His ministerial work in the church at Milton 
was a most faithful and successful one. The closing 
months of his life were darkened by the great mis- 
fortune which befell his town and congregation, 
through a sweeping conflagration, in which their 
pleasant house of worship was consumed. He was a 
man of positive convictions, and was quite ready to 
utter them. He stood in the old paths, taught the old 
theology, and strove to build up his Church on solid 



214 PRESBYTERY 

Scriptural foundations. He died August 31, 1880, in 
the seventy-sixth year of his age. 

E-EV. Joseph Sanford was born in Yernon, Yt., 
February 6, 1797. He graduated at Union College in 
1820. He studied theology at Princeton Seminary, 
and in April, 1823, was licensed to preach by the 
Presbytery of "New York. Immediately after this he 
went to Montreal, L. C.,and for several weeks supplied 
the American Presbyterian Church in that city, to 
which he received a unanimous call, but which he felt 
constrained to decline. In October of that year he was 
pastor of the new Presbyterian (now the First) Church 
of Brooklyn, IN". Y. Here he continued to labor with 
great acceptance, his congregation rapidly increasing 
under his ministry, till October, 1828, when he received 
a call from the Second Presbyterian Church in Phila- 
delphia, which he accepted. His installation over this 
church took place January 21, 1829. From the time of 
his settlement in Philadelphia his health was so much 
impaired that he was but ill-fitted to bear the burden of 
responsibility and care that rested upon him. He died 
December 25, 1831. His disease was attended, during a 
considerable part of the time, with delirium, but in every 
lucid interval it was manifest that the Sun of Right- 
eousness was pouring beams of joy into his soul. 

" Mr. Sanford," says Dr. Waterbury, " had a vein of 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 215 

moral and mental excellence, the purity and richness 
of which none could know who did not go heneath its 
surface to discover it." He w^as a model pastor. His 
manners were kind and conciliatory. His chastened 
aspect forbade all undue familiarity, but he was neither 
harsh nor repulsive. He had an ardent mind, which, 
in the pulpit, took fire hy its own action, communi- 
cating warmth and light to the congregation, and ever 
and anon flashing upon them some brilliant thought, 
or some burning sentence. He spoke from the heart to 
the heart. In prayer he was singularly gifted. " His 
prayers seemed to take hold of the very gates of heaven, 
and struggle to open them. Here was seen the man of 
God, one who lived on the mount ; ' seeing God face to 
face.' " 

ITiCHOLAS Murray, D.D., was born in Armagh 
County, Ireland, December 25, 1802. At the age of 
sixteen he resolved to come to the Western World to 
seek his fortune, and found a situation in the publish- 
ing establishment of the well-known Harper Brothers, 
"New York. He had been brought up a Roman 
Catholic; but having his attention arrested by the 
preaching of Dr. John M. Mason, he began to examine 
for himself, and the result w^as his conversion to 
Protestantism. He was now persuaded to study for 
the ministry, and graduated at Williams College, 



216 PRESBYTERY 

Massachusetts, under Dr. G-riffin. After spending some 
time in the service of the American Tract Society, he 
graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1829, 
when he was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia. He was ordained and installed pastor of the 
Wilkesbarre Church, November, 1829, by the Presby- 
tery of Susquehanna. July 23, 1833, he was installed 
pastor of the First Church, Elizabethtown, ]^. J., 
where " his profiting appeared to all," and where in 
the midst of his usefulness he was smitten with rheu- 
matism of the heart, and expired, after a brief illness, 
February 11, 1861. 

Dr. Murray's merits were familiar to the Church at 
large. He was chosen Moderator of the Greneral 
Assembly in 1849. Besides numerous calls to churches, 
he was appointed to two Theological Professorships, 
the Secretaryship of the Board of Foreign Missions 
and General Agency of the American Tract Society 
for the valley of the Mississippi. 

Dr. Murray had a strong, clear, practical mind, and 
his style of preaching was more instructive than 
imaginative. He was endowed with a native, racy, 
ready wit, savoring of his mother-country, which some- 
times in controversy flashed up in scathing irony and 
sarcasm. 

His published works are the celebrated " Kirwan 
Letters on Popery," in two series, originally published 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 217 

in the !N'ew York " Observer ;" " Travels in Europe ;" 
" Home ;" " Driftwood ;" " Thoughts on Preaching and 
Preachers ;" and a posthumous set of discourses on 
" Things Unseen and Eternal." 

Thomas McCauley, D.D., was a native of Ireland. 
He graduated at Union College, E". Y., in 1804, was 
Tutor there in 1805-6, and Professor of Mathematics 
and K"atural Philosophy from 1814 to 1822, meanwhile 
being licensed to preach, it is supposed, by the Presby- 
tery of Albany. He was settled in E"ew York City as 
pastor of Rutgers Street Church. He then removed to 
Philadelphia, and had charge of what is now the Tenth 
Presbyterian Church. June 2, 1830, he was elected 
President of the Board of Education, which position 
he filled but one year. Subsequently he returned to 'New 
York City to assume the pastorate of the Murray Street 
Presbyterian Church. While thus engaged he w^as 
elected in 1838 to the Chair of Pastoral Theology and 
Church Government, in the Union Theological Semi- 
nary of that city, which position he held until 1841. 
For a year previous to his death Dr. McCauley lived in 
retirement. 

Eev. Samuel G-. Winchester was born at Eock Run, 
Harford County, Md., Feb. 17, 1805. As the field in 
which to exercise his talents he chose the law, and was 
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218 PRESBYTERY 

entered as a student of law in the University of Mary- 
land, but subsequently, notwithstanding the prospect 
of a successful career at the Bar, decided to enter the 
ministry. He became a student at Princeton Seminary 
in 'Nov. 1827, was licensed in 1829 by the Presbytery 
of Baltimore, and in 1830 was unanimously called to 
be pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church in Phila- 
delphia. He accepted the call, and was ordained and 
installed May 4, 1830. In the Spring of 1837 he re- 
signed his charge, and accepted an agency from the 
Board of Domestic Missions. In the Autumn he re- 
ceived a call to the Church in Natchez, Miss., and be- 
lieving that the change of climate would be favorable 
to his health, he accepted the call, and was able to dis- 
charge his duties four years. He died Aug. 31, 1841. 

"In the pulpit, or on the floor of a deliberative 
body," says Dr. Engles, " although his appearance was 
youthful, his person was commanding, his self-posses- 
sion perfect, his gesticulation easy and graceful, his 
voice full and well modulated, and his whole manner 
peculiarly oratorical. The bent of his mind was for 
argument and discussion, and in deliberative bodies 
he was often listened to with pleasure, if not surprise, 
for the happy facility he displayed in developing a 
point of controversy, particularly when it related to 
ecclesiastical law." 



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OF PHILADELPHIA. 219 

Rev. Albert Barnes was bom in Rome, E". Y., 
December 1, 1798. His preparatory studies were con- 
ducted in Fairfield Academy, where he gave early pro- 
mise of his abilities by composing, in connection with 
two fellow-students, a tragedy in verse, entitled " Wil- 
liam Tell ; or, Switzerland Delivered." Who knows 
how near the distinguished commentator came to be- 
coming a distinguished poet? When he entered Ham- 
ilton College, he was decidedly skeptical. But his 
skepticism was removed by reading Chalmers' article 
on Christianity in the "Edinburgh Encyclopsedia," 
and a revival in the college beheld him among the 
converts. He renounced his intention to study law, 
and entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1820. 
After taking the three years' course, he remained for 
several months as a resident graduate. In February, 
1825, he was installed pastor of the church in Morris- 
town, 1S[. J. Here his ministry was very successful, 
and here he comjnenced the preparation of his Com- 
mentaries. Dr. James W. Alexander had also entered 
on a similar work, at the request of the American 
Sunday-School Union, but learning Mr. Barnes' inten- 
tions, he gracefully yielded the field to him, pleading 
his own delicate health. 

June 30, 1830, Mr. Barnes accepted a call from the 
First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and took 
the first step in a course which was to make his name 



220 PRESBYTERY 

historic, in the face of a vehement opposition from 
some members of the Presbytery, who considered his 
recently published '' Sermon on the Way of Salvation" 
unsound. Party feeling between the Old and 'New 
School rose higher and higher, till at length, in 1835, 
Eev. Dr. George Junkin conceived it his duty to table 
charges against him on the ground of heterodoxy, as 
evinced in his Commentary on Romans, etc. The Pres- 
bytery refusing to sustain these charges. Dr. Junkin 
appealed to the Synod, who censured Mr. Barnes and 
suspended him from the ministry. To this severe 
sentence he submitted without murmuring, abstaining 
from entering the pulpit on the Sabbath ; but he took 
an appeal to the next General Assembly in 1836. 
That Assembly, the Synod of Philadelphia being out 
of the house, reversed the sentence and took off the 
suspension. Prom this time the altercations grew more 
and more bitter, till, in 1838, the work of schism was 
complete, and the seamless coat of Christ was torn in 
twain. It is proper here to add that when the time 
for reunion arrived in 1870, Mr. Barnes took one of the 
first preliminary steps to facilitate it by gracefully 
offering to withdraw his books from the shelves of the 
Publication Committee. And it is proper to state 
still further, that at the time of his demise so much 
had the bitterness of controversy subsided that his loss 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 221 

was lamented as sincerely by his brethren of the Old 
School division as by those of his own. 

In 1849 Mr. Barnes was invited to a professorship in 
Lane Seminary, which he saw fit to decline. In 1851 
the General Assembly (^ew School) manifested their 
appreciation of their favorite champion and Coryphaeus 
by making him Moderator. About this time his eyes 
began to fail, and for a time he had to forego the 
pleasure of reading and writing. ]N"otwithstanding a 
trip to Europe and the employment of assistants in the 
pulpit, this infirmity increased to such a degree that in 
1868, having reached the age of seventy, he resigned 
his charge, much against his people's wishes. To the 
last, however, he continued to preach occasionally in 
the churches, and regularly in the House of Refuge, of 
which he was a manager. Although the congregation 
made him Pastor Emeritus, the distance from the church 
of his residence in West Philadelphia prevented him 
from rendering them much service, and he decidedly 
refused to receive anything in the way of salary. 

At length the end drew near. The call to his reward 
surprised him in the performance of a sacred and tender 
duty. On December 24, 1870, he walked a mile to 
administer consolation to a bereaved family, but had 
scarcely seated himself when he experienced a difficulty 
of breathing, and suddenly falling back in his chair, 
expired without a struggle. 



222 PRESBYTERY 

Mr. Barnes' fame rests chiefly on his "Commea- 
taries," of which a million copies have been circulated 
in America and Great Britain, and translations have 
been made into several foreign languages. He pub- 
lished a variety of books and pamphlets on other sub- 
jects. His two discourses, " Life at Three-score" and 
"Life at Three-score and Ten," are among the most 
charming autobiographies the world has ever seen ; 
they show beautifully how religion can gild and cheer 
a Christian minister's closing years. 

Mr. Barnes rose at four o'clock in the morning, 
winter and summer, and repaired, lantern in hand, to 
his study, which was in the church edifice. Here he 
remained till nine o'clock, as we learn from his own 
account, laboring on his " Commentaries," and as soon 
as the hour struck, such was his adherence to method, 
he laid down his pen, though in the middle of a sen- 
tence. Thus, like Sir Walter Scott, his main studies 
were over before other men had fairly begun their day's 
work. This course he adopted to forestall any insinua- 
tions that he was infringing on time sacred to his ordi- 
nary pastoral duties. A night watchman once saw him 
applying his key, and not knowing his person or his 
habits, kept a sharp eye on him, but his suspicions were 
soon dissipated by hearing his voice in prayer. The 
story has gained currency with variations and the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 223 

student's jeopardy has been magnified, but the above 
is all that the family admit to be authentic. 

As a writer Mr. Barnes was remarkably clear and 
lucid. It was impossible to mistake his meaning. His 
name appears without any title, because he was con- 
scientiously opposed to academic degrees. As a 
preacher it is sufficient to say that he stood at the 
head of his profession, in an arduous post, and under 
peculiarly trying circumstances, yet he commanded to 
the last the respect and admiration of persons of intel- 
ligence and culture, both in an out of the learned pro- 
fessions. At the same time, his pulpit efforts were not 
coldly intellectual and barren. Though addressed to 
the judgment, and delivered in a calm and unimpas- 
sioned manner, like those of his great predecessor. Dr. 
Wilson, they were solemn and impressive, and their 
faithfulness and pungency were attested by numerous 
revivals. Dr. Skinner said of him that he had not left 
his equal behind him. 

George Junkin, D.D., LL.D., sprung from a Came- 
ronian ancestry of the straitest sort, was born Novem- 
ber 1, 1790, near Carlisle, in the lovely Cumberland 
Valley, Pennsylvania. The family in 1806 removed to 
Mercer County, on the banks of the !N"eshannock. He 
graduated at Jefferson College, September, 1813. He 
then studied theology with Dr. Mason in N^ew York. 



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He filled missionary appointments for some time, as in 
the Thirteenth Street or Margaret Duncan Church, 
Philadelphia, the history of which we cannot stop to 
narrate. October 17, 1819, he was settled over the As- 
sociate Reformed Church in Milton, Pennsylvania, 
where the lines did not fall in pleasant places. In 1822 
he entered the Presbyterian connection, along with Dr. 
Mason and the great body of the Associate Reformed. 
In 1830 he took charge of a manual-labor institution in 
Germantown. This brought him into the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia. In 1831 he was chosen Moderator 
of the Synod of Philadelphia. His stay in this connec- 
tion was short, for in 1832 he accepted the Presidency 
of Lafayette College, and in April, 1833, removed his 
membership to the Presbytery of I^ewton, in the Synod 
of ^ew Jersey. June 30, 1835, he undertook his 
famous prosecution of Albert Barnes for doctrinal 
error, before the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia. 
He justified his interference, though a member of an- 
other Presbytery and Synod, by stating his belief that 
the Second Presbytery had been formed for Mr. Barnes' 
sake, and there was no probability of any member of 
that Presbytery undertaking the task. The subsequent 
results have passed into history. In August, 1841, he 
was made President of the Miami University, Ohio. 
In 1844 he was elected Moderator of the Old School 
General Assembly, and in the same year left Miami and 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 225 

resumed tlie Presidency of Lafayette — " lovely Lafay- 
ette," as he was fond of calling it. In October, 1848, 
he saw fit to accept the Presidency of Washington 
College, Virginia, whither twenty-six of his students 
followed him, and where he remained for twelve years. 
Then were kindled the flames of war, A secession flag 
was run up over the college in direct violation of his 
orders, and he resigned April 18, 1861. He died of 
angina pectoris^ in Philadelphia, after a brief illness, 
May 20, 1868, aged 78 years. 

Dr. Junkin possessed a sturdy intellect, and was 
more remarkable for the vigorous grasp which he took 
of every subject he handled than for the variety or ex- 
tent of his learning. Despising all aflfectation and dis- 
simulation, he was rather blunt and brusque in his 
manner, and often had a preoccupied air. In his 
preaching, which was without notes, he was exegetical 
and logical ; and in spite of his low stature and re- 
markably shrill voice, he commanded the attention of 
his hearers. But his exertions and influence were not 
confined to the pulpit. He took an active part in pro- 
moting education, particularly the school system of 
Pennsylvania, emancipation, the national Union and 
temperance. 

Dr. Junkin was a voluminous author. His pub- 
lished writings were " Baptism," " The Prophecies," 
" Justification," " Sanctification," " Sabbatismos," " The 



226 PRESBYTERY 

Tabernacle," " The Vindication," " Political Fallacies," 
besides " Baccalaureate Addresses,"- " Literary Ad- 
dresses," " Occasional Discourses," and a MS. commen- 
tary on Hebrews, in 750 quarto pages, whicti was written 
after his seventy-fifth year. 

James R. Eckard, D.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
IN'ovember 22, 1805. He graduated at the University 
of Pennsylvania in 1823, practised law 1826-30, was 
ordained an evangelist by the Third Presbytery of Phi- 
ladelphia July 21, 1833, was missionary in Ceylon 
1833-43, agent of the A. B. C. F. M., in Georgia, 
1844, missionary and Principal of the Chatham Acad- 
emy, Savannah, Georgia, 1844-46, pastor of ]^ew York 
Avenue Church, Washington, D. C, 1848-58, stated 
supply at Asbury, IT. J., 1860-67, and Professor in 
Lafayette College 1858-72. When in Ceylon, Dr. 
Eckard published, in the Tamil language, an essay on 
Faith and Justification. Also, in English, a work 
called the "Hindoo Traveler," designed for natives 
educated to read English. On his return from India 
he published a small volume containing a narrative of 
some of the missionary operations there. He con- 
tributed to the Princeton JReview^ in 1860, an article on 
the " Logical Relations of Religion and Science." 

Silas M. Andrews, D.D., was born March 11, 1805, 
in Back Creek Congregation, Rowan County, E". C. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 227 

He was graduated from the University of N^orth 
Carolina, at Chapel Hill, A. D. 1826, taught a classical 
school in his native place one and a half years, was for 
another one and a half years tutor in the University of 
I^^orth Carolina, entered Princeton Seminary in the Fall 
of 1828, and was regularly graduated in the Fall of 
1831. He was licensed by 'New Brunswick Presbytery, 
February 2, 1831, ordained by the Presbytery of Phila- 
delphia, at Doylestown, Pa., I^ovember 16, 1831, and 
on the same day installed pastor of the Church of 
Doylestown and Deep Pun. This was his one, unin- 
terrupted, and only charge from that day until his 
death, a period of forty-nine years and fqur months. 
Here he labored steadily, industriously, with marked 
ability, sound judgment, and rare devotion to his one 
work, concentrating all his efforts on his charge, and 
taking very little part in outside affairs, gathering in 
from time to time large numbers of converts, and train- 
ing and edifying his people in the way of truth, holi- 
ness, and duty. For the first seventeen years of his 
pastorate he also conducted a private classical school, 
in addition to performing his ministerial duties. He 
died March 7, 1881. 

Dr. Andrews was a quiet, unassuming man, averse 
to all pretension and ostentation. He possessed ex- 
cellent scholarship, a well-balanced mind, rare good 
judgment, and was a Scriptural and impressive 



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preacher. From October 15, 1848, until the Reunion 
in 1870, when he declined a re-election, he was Stated 
Clerk of the Synod of Philadelphia, the duties of which 
office he was admirably qualified to fulfil by his 
accuracy, his methodical carefulness, and his fine pen- 
manship. He was held in high respect and warm re- 
gard by all who knew him. 

"William J. Gibson, D.D., was born August 22,1810, 
in Eyegate, Yt. He graduated at Jefferson College, 
Pa., in 1826. After teaching for a time, and having 
studied theology privately for two years previously, 
under the care of the Reformed (Covenanter) Presby- 
tery, he changed his church relations in 1830, and was 
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, 
October 30, 1831. Soon after he received a call to the 
Mnth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, which had 
just been vacated by the Independent Presbyterian 
Church, Rev. John Chambers, pastor, and was installed 
its pastor February 7, 1832. In this church he con- 
tinued his ministry until the Spring of 1838. He 
became pastor of the church in Hollidaysburg, Pa., in 
April, 1839. In 1841 he was called to the Union 
Church, Philadelphia. The following year he was 
called to Williamsburg, and while pastor there he sup- 
plied Martinsburg until called for half his time to 
Sinking Yalley. After a prosperous pastorate of some 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 229 

years in this field, he was called in 1852 to Lick Run, 
at Jacksonville, Centre County, then a large, strong 
church. Here he continued until October, 1861. He 
subsequently supplied the churches of Pine Grove and 
Duncansville, and finally became pastor of the cKurches 
of Martinsburg and Duncansville, which he continued 
to serve until increasing blindness and growing 
infirmity compelled his retirement from the active 
ministry. He died in 1883. 

Dr. Gibson was highly appreciated as a minister of 
the Gospel and profound theologian. He was a faithful 
and fearless advocate of sound doctrine. He was also 
a good Presbyter, well versed in Presbyterial law and 
modes of procedure. His interest in all religious ques- 
tions and work was unabated to the last. As an author 
he wrote much and powerfully for the press, and has 
left behind a printed debate on Baptism, showing great 
skill and deep research, and a history of Huntingdon 
Presbytery, with several biographical sketches of its 
deceased members both clerical and lay. 

David X. Junkin, D.D., was born at Mercer, Pa., 
January 8, 1808, graduated at Jefferson College in 1831, 
and after spending a short time in teaching, entered 
Princeton Seminary, in which he was a student for two 
years and six months. 

Mr. Junkin was licensed by the Presbytery of Phil a- 



230 PRESBYTERY 

delphia, October 17, 1833, and installed pastor of the 
church at Greenwich, l!^. J., March 25, 1835. Here he 
labored sixteen years, during a part of which time 
(1837-42) he was also Professor of Belles Lettres in 
Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa. His ministry at 
Greenwich was intelligent, enterprising, earnest, labo- 
rious, and fruitful. He was greatly beloved and 
honored, and his name is still held in veneration. As 
pastor of the F Street Church in Washington, D. C, 
from May 11, 1851, until October 25, 1853, his labors 
were blessed, and a new impulse was given, by his 
presence and work, to the interests of his denomination 
in that city. I^ovember 21, 1853, he became pastor of 
the church at Hollidaysburg, Pa., and labored there 
assiduously and successfully about seven years, until 
released ]^ovember 25, 1860. Afterward he accepted 
a commission to act as Chaplain in the United States 
^avy, and was stationed successively between May, 
1860, and l^ovember, 1864, at Philadelphia, Annapolis, 
Md., IS'ewport, P. L, is'ew York City, Portsmouth, ]!T. 
H., and then went with his ship to the Gulf of Mexico. 
October 17, 1864, he was installed pastor of the ]^orth 
Church, Chicago, 111. Here his ministry was vigorous, 
and made on the minds of many lasting impressions on 
the side of truth, but the climate proving unfavorable 
to his health he was released from the charge May 15, 
1866. Dr. Junkin then accepted a call from the church 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 231 

of JS'ew Castle, Pa., and was installed as its pastor 
September 13, 1866. This was his last pastoral charge, 
and here he labored nearly thirteen years, much of the 
time enduring acute pain, yet toiling with industry, 
fervor, and success. Many were added to his church, 
his congregation was enlarged, and believers were 
edified. At last he felt compelled to yield to disease 
and age, and was released July 1, 1879. His death 
occurred April 22, 1880, in the seventy-third year of 
his age. His end was entirely peaceful. 

Dr. Junkin was a man of clear and strong convic- 
tions, and never hesitated to utter them strongly, on 
what he believed to be fitting occasions. Though posi- 
tive in manner, he had a warm, affectionate, tender 
heart. He was a conservative, faithful, brave defender 
of the faith ; as a preacher, instructive, Scriptural, 
impressive ; as a pastor, tender, sympathizing, and 
judicious. He was the author of several valuable 
volumes, and for many years was a prolific and interest- 
ing writer for the weekly religious press. 

John B. Pinney, LL.D., born in Baltimore, Md., 
December 25, 1806, was graduated from the University 
of Georgia, August, 1828, studied law while pursuing 
his college course, and was admitted to practice in the 
Supreme Court of Georgia, in 1828, taught one year in 
Waterboro, S. C, entered Princeton Seminary in 1829, 



232 PRESBYTERY 

and having completed the full course, was regularly 
graduated in 1832. He was licensed by the Presbytery 
of E'ew Brunswick, April 25, 1832, was ordained as an 
evangelist by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, October 
12, 1832, having been appointed a Missionary to Africa 
by the Western Foreign Missionary Society, was ap- 
pointed by the American Colonization Society " to act 
as Agent" of the American Colony at Liberia "until the 
arrival of a permanent Agent," October 24, 1833, and 
was appointed Agent, April 17, 1834. 

Mr. Pinney remained in Liberia until 1837. After 
his return, he was Corresponding Secretary of the 
Pennsylvania Colonization Society, residing in Pitts- 
burg and Philadelphia, from 1837 to 1847, was installed 
pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pa., 
by the Presbytery of Washington, June 1, 1847, and 
released, April 20, 1848, was Corresponding Sec- 
retary of the I^ew York State Colonization Society, 
from 1848 to 1863. In 1866 he went to ]^evada, where 
he remained until 1869, engaged in mining and agri- 
cultural operations. A few years later, on the re- 
organization of the !N"ew York State Colonization 
Society, he was again appointed its Corresponding 
Secretary, and remained in that office until his death. 
He was a man of almost singular devotion to his work, 
of indomitable energy of character, and indefatigable 
in labor. He had worn himself out long before his end 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 233 

came, but in the intervals of his struggles with disease 
and infirmity, he continued to do his utmost to the 
last. His whole life was devoted to the ^egro race, 
and especially to African colonization. Seven times 
he crossed the ocean, to Africa, once or twice after the 
failure of his health, to promote the interests of Liberia. 
He died at his residence, near Ocala, Florida, whither 
he had gone a few months before, on his seventy-seventh 
birth-day, December 25, 1882. He was buried under 
the shade of the oaks, near his house, six black men 
acting as pall-bearers. 

Eev. Alexander Macklin, D.D., was born in the 
parish of Lambeg, and County of Down, near Belfast, 
in the E'orth of Ireland, on the 15th of January, 1808. 
He was descended from a Scotch ancestry and a God- 
fearing parentage, rejoicing in an entail of piety more 
permanent far than that by which they held their 
earthly possessions. He was brought into the church at 
the age of seventeen years ; and shortly after this gave 
himself to the Lord for the work of the ministry, to 
which, after a regular and thorough education, literary 
and theological, in the institutions of Belfast, he was 
licensed in 1831, in the church of Hill-Hall, of which 
he was a member, by the Presbytery of Belfast, as a 
probationer for the gospel ministry. His entire edu- 
cation was paid for by a sum of money left for that 
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234 PRESBYTERY 

express purpose by his grandfather, a man of profound 
piety. He decided to locate in America, and arrived 
in l^ew York on the 1st of January, 1832. Im- 
mediately after his arrival, he received a call from the 
church of Clinton, 'New Jersey, over which he was 
ordained and installed by the Presbytery of I^ewton. 
Here he labored with great acceptance, until called to 
the Scots Church of Philadelphia, Penna., where he 
preached for twenty-four years. In this church he 
preached his last sermon on January 23, 1859, before 
leaving for Florida, whither he went on account of his 
failing health. He returned home only to linger until 
July 6, 1859, when he was called to his home in Heaven 
to receive the reward of his Master, and to enter into 
eternal life. Of his services here, what more need be 
said, than this, " His record is on high." 

Henry A. Boardman, D.D., was born at Troy, I^ew 
York, January 9, 1808, and graduated at Yale College 
in 1829, after which he studied theology at the Prince- 
ton Seminary. On leaving the Seminary in 1833, he 
became the pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church 
in Philadelphia, and continued in that relation until 
released. May 5, 1876, after which he continued, b}^ a 
vote of the church and of the Presbytery, to hold the 
relation of Pastor Emeritus until his death. This oc- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 235 

cnrred June 15, 1880, in the seventy-third year of his 
age. 

Among Dr. Boardman's theological writings may be 
specified, " The Scriptural Doctrine of Original Sin" 
(1839), "The Great Question" (1855), "The Society of 
Friends, and the Two Sacraments" (1857), all of which 
are now admitted to be standard works on the themes 
which they discuss. On controversial and ecclesiastical 
matters, in 1841 he published " Correspondence with 
Bishop Doane on the Oxford Tracts," and 1844 " The 
Apostolical Succession," in 1849 "The Doctrine of 
Election," in 1855 "The Christian Ministry not a 
Priesthood," and in 1866 "The State of the Church : 
being a Review of the Proceedings of the General As- 
sembly of 1866." With the warm interest he always 
took in the prosperity of the country, he allowed few 
occurrences of great public interest to pass without di- 
recting the minds of the people to the moral lessons 
and duties arising from the occasion, and among his 
published addresses may be mentioned " The American 
Union" (1850), "The Federal Judiciary" (1862). In 
1865 "The Peace Makers," and "The Peace we Il^eed, 
and How to Secure it." Of his very many publications 
on miscellaneous matters, the principal are, " The Im- 
portance of Religion to the Legal Profession" (1849), 
" A Discourse on the Life and Character of Samuel 
Miller" (1850), " The- Bible in the Family" (1851), 



236 PRESBYTERY 

" The Bible in the Counting-house" (1853), " The Low 
Value set upon Human Life in the United States" 
(1853), " Moral Courage" (1857), " Christian Union" 
(1859), " The Life and Character of the Rev. Cortlandt 
Van Rensselaer, D.D." (1860). The most of these 
works have gone through several editions in this 
country, have been reprinted with commendatory pre- 
faces in Great Britain, and some have been translated 
into other languages. 

In 1853 Dr. Boardman was elected by the General 
Assembly to the chair of Pastoral Theology in the 
Seminary at Princeton, made vacant by the death of 
Dr. Archibald Alexander, but at the solicitation of his 
church and many distinguished citizens of Philadel- 
phia, he consented to abide with them, and declined the 
appointment. In the following year he was elected 
Moderator of the General Assembly. He received the 
honorary degree of D.D. from Marshall College, Penn- 
sylvania. 

From the day of his settlement in the ministry, Dr. 
Boardman became a leader in the Presbyterian Church. 
He speedily gained a wide and powerful influence, 
which he wielded always for the extension of the 
Church and the maintenance of her principles. He 
was a man of mark in all her assemblies, often appear- 
ing in her highest court, discussing important subjects 
with masterly ability, and assisting with his wise coun- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 237 

sels the establishment of many of the institutions which 
have given her strength and ministered to her rapid 
increase. 

Dr. Boardman performed his great life-work of forty- 
six years, in his first and only pastoral charge, with 
distinguished ability, learning, and fidelity. He held 
his position by the sedulous and conscientious cultiva- 
tion of his pulpit powers. Evangelical and elevated in 
his thoughts, and pure, simple, and direct in his style, 
he charmed while instructing his people, and bound 
them to himself by the ties of a reverential love. He 
was uncompromisingly orthodox in his doctrinal beliefs, 
and Presbyterian in his ecclesiastical polity. Always 
and everywhere he maintained his Calvinistic and Pres- 
byterian opinions, and living in times of high contro- 
versy in our own and with other denominations, he was 
pronounced in the defence and advocacy of those views. 
But he was so high-toned and courteous in his contro- 
versial character that he commanded the respect and 
admiration of opponents. 

E-EV, Levi Janvier was born at Pittsgrove, K J., 
April 25, 1816. He graduated at the College of Few 
Jersey in 1835. After being engaged in teaching for a 
time, he was ordained by the Presbytery of West Jer- 
sey, December 31, 1840. He was a missionary in In- 
dia, at Futtehghur, Lodiana, Ambala, and Sabbathu, 



238 PRESBYTERY 

1841-64. He died at Anandpoer, March 25, 1864, 
passing from his chosen scene of labor and self-denial 
to the reward of a " good and faithful servant." 

Samuel Beach Jones, D.D., was born in Charleston, 
S. C, iN'ovember 23, 1811. He was educated atPnnce- 
ton, and was ordained by the Presbytery of ISTew 
Brunswick, October 4, 1837. He was Assistant Sec- 
retary of the Board of Missions, 1836-37, Professor of 
Theology in Oakland College, Miss., 1838. He became 
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Bridgeton, 
iN". J., in 1839, and resigned the charge in 1863. He 
was an influential member of the Presbytery. From 
1870 to 1875, he was Stated Supply of the Fairfield 
Church. Dr. Jones was a man of good scholarship, 
and well read, especially in all theological learning. 
He was prevented by physical infirmities from preach- 
ing during the last few years of his life. His attach- 
ments to the Presbyterian Church were strong, and his 
proclamations of the gospel were faithful testimonies 
to its power and value in the salvation of the souls of 
men. His own faith rested securely upon the person 
and work of Christ. In that faith he lived, and in that 
faith he died, March 19, 1883, at his residence in 
Bridgeton. 

John Hall, D.D., was born in Philadelphia, August 
11, 1806, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 239 

in 1823, and in December, 1827, was admitted to 
practice at the Philadelphia Bar. In 1832 he re- 
linquished the practice of law, with a view to devote 
his life to the ministry, and being elected a manager, 
and afterward Secretary of the Mission work of the 
American Sunday-School Union, his training for the 
ministry was chiefly in the course of active work in 
this service. He was editor of the Sunday-School 
Journal and the Youths s Friend^ revised the first five 
volumes of the " Union Questions on the Bible," and 
prepared the seven subsequent volumes of the series. 
He produced nine original works and compiled six 
others, which have now a place upon the catalogue of the 
Union. In 1839 he was licensed to preach by the Presby- 
tery of Philadelphia, and was ordained and installed, 
August 11, 1841, pastor of the First Church in Trenton, 
1^. J., which relation he sustained until the close of his 
ministerial labors. His ministry was greatly blessed. 
In 1852-53 Dr. Hall delivered a course of lectures in 
the Princeton Theological Seminary, filling a temporary 
vacancy in the Chair of Pastoral Theology. In addition 
to the works he prepared for the American Sunday- 
School Union, nine volumes appear on the catalogue of 
the Presbyterian Board of Publication. " He also pub- 
lished some occasional sermons, and was a frequent 
contributor to various religious and literary journals. 
E"umerous articles from his pen have appeared in the 



240 PRESBYTERY 

Princeton Review. Dr. Hall was an able scholar, a 
vigorous and graceful writer, an instructive and im- 
pressive preacher, and wielded a large intiuence for 
good by his pen and from his pulpit. 

Dr. Cornelius C. Cuyler was born at Albany, of an 
honored Dutch ancestry, February 15, 1783. He gradu- 
ated at Union College in 1806, and studied theology 
under Drs. Livingston and Bassett. He was ordained 
pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in Poughkeepsie, 
January 2, 1809. I^umerous revivals occurred under 
his ministry. He declined several flattering invitations ; 
but in obedience to the apparent call of Providence, he 
accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church, 
Philadelphia, and was installed January 14, 1834. 
Here he continued in faithful labor till his death, which 
occurred August 31, 1850, when he was in the sixty- 
eighth year of his age. 

Dr. Cuyler was of noble appearance, being six feet 
two inches in height. He had a remarkably well- 
balanced mind. He was dignified, yet affable, an 
elegant scholar, and a perfect gentleman. His sermons 
were carefully written, his style was lucid and perspic- 
uous, his delivery sober and free from extravagances. 
His deathbed was truly edifying. His published writ- 
ings consisted of a number of occasional sermons and 
several tracts. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 241 

"William A. McDowell, D.D., was born at Laming- 
ton, 'N. J., in May, 1789. He graduated at Princeton 
College in 1809, and was Tutor in the college 1810-11. 
His theological studies, commenced under the direction 
of Dr. John Woodhull, were completed in Princeton 
Seminary in 1813. He was licensed to preach by the 
Presbytery of I^ew Brunswick, April 28, 1813, and 
installed pastor of Bound Brook, N". J., on the 22d of 
December following. This relation continued until 
October 19, 1814, and on the 15th of the next December 
he was installed pastor of the church at Morristown, 
l!T. J. Here his ministry was characterized by great 
acceptableness and usefulness. His health requiring a 
milder climate, he accepted a call from a Presbyterian 
Church in Charleston, S. C, and was installed its pastor 
December 3, 1823. Here he continued occupying a 
wide sphere of ministerial usefulness about ten years. 
In 1832 he was Moderator of the General Assembly. 
In 1833 he was appointed Secretary of the Board of 
Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian Church, which 
position he retained until 1850. His death took place 
September 17, 1851. 

Dr. McDowell was truly a Christian in his views of 
divine truth, in his intercourse with God, and in the 
eminent prudence, circumspection, and consistency of 
his public and private walk. As a minister of the 
Gospel he cheerfully consecrated himself to his work. 



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His sermons were well planned, thoroughly digested, 
solid, and rich in evangelical instruction. His manner 
was characterized by a fervor and unction that gave it 
very considerable effect. As a pastor he was diligent 
and faithful. Under his administration the Board of 
Missions, which had been in a comparatively low and 
crippled condition, assumed a higher position, the 
sphere of its influence was enlarged, its importance was 
more fully appreciated by the Church, and its efficiency 
became visible in many hundred places which before 
were literally spiritual desolations. 

Eev. Matthew B. Hope was born in Mifflin County, 
Pa., July 31, 1812. He entered Jefferson College in 
the year 1825, and graduated in 1830, when he was 
only seventeen years of age. He then studied theology 
at the Seminary at Princeton till 1832, and having con- 
cluded to go out as a missionary to India, studied medi- 
cine at the University of Pennsylvania in the two fol- 
lowing years, and was licensed and ordained as a mis- 
sionary by the Presbytery of Huntingdon in 1835. He 
received an appointment from the American Board of 
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and labored two 
years at Singapore, an island off the northern extremity 
of the Malay peninsula, where he had a sun stroke, and 
on partial recovery was recommended by his physicians 
to return to his native land. The homeward voyage 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 243 

was beneficial to him, and he was able in a short time 
to act as agent for the Colonization Societj^, and in 
1839 he was appointed Financial Secretary to the 
Presbyterian Board of Education, and in 1842 Corre- 
sponding Secretary. In this office he continued till 
1846, but in 1845 was elected to the Professorship of 
Belles Lettres and Political Economy in the College of 
!N"ew Jersey, a relation which he held till his death. 
From the time of his return from India he was per- 
petually suftering from neuralgia, a violent pain passing 
from one member of the body to another, till finally it 
reached his heart, and after half an hour of suffering, 
on the morning of the 17th of December, 1859, its pul- 
sation ceased, before his physician could reach him. 
His funeral sermon was preached by President Mac- 
lean, followed with a Memorial Discourse by Dr. At- 
water, which was published in the Nassau Literary 
Magazine. During his funeral all the places of business 
in Princeton were closed, as a mark of respect. 

Dr. Hope was a man of great simplicity of manner, di- 
rect yet full of genial kindness. A broken constitution 
hindered him from executing much which otherwise 
he would have done, but notwithstanding such a serious 
obstacle, the amount of work which he went through 
would have been felt to be laborious by a healthy man. 
In addition to the toils of an exciting department, he 
frequently preached in the adjoining cities, as well as in 



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his place in chapel, and spent much time and exhaust- 
ing labor for the financial interests of the college. But 
the chief element of his character, and the one which 
can never be separated from recollections of him, was 
his deep and active piety. Of this none who ever came 
in contact with him could fail to be aware. Dr. Hope 
was publisher of the Princeton Review from 1840 to 
1848, and contributed a number of valuable articles 
to it. 

John "W". Yeomans, D.D., was born in Hinsdale, 
Mass., January 7, 1800. His parents were in humble 
circumstances, and when a boy he was apprenticed to 
a blacksmith, but he had an ardent desire for learning, 
and had made good use of the opportunities aflbrded 
him for acquiring knowledge, and before his appren- 
ticeship was completed he bought up the unexpired 
time and supported himself by teaching. He entered 
Williams College in 1824, and was graduated with the 
second honors of the class. In 1826-7 he was Tutor 
in the college, after which he studied theology in the 
Seminary at Andover, and in ^N'ovember, 1828, he was 
ordained and installed pastor over a small congregation 
in ;North Adams, Mass., which he had gathered while 
acting as Tutor in the college. He now collected funds 
to build for them a house for worship, and continued 
with them till 1832, when he accepted a call to the 



or PHILADELPHIA. 245 

First Congregational Church in Pittsfield, Mass. At 
the end of two years he resigned this for the First 
Presbyterian Church in Trenton, IST. J., where he 
became the successor to Dr. James W. Alexander. In 
1841 he accepted the presidency of Lafayette College, 
Easton, Pa., which he resigned in 1844, and after a 
short residence in Philadelphia became the pastor of 
the Mahoning Church in Danville, Pa., the duties of 
which he discharged till his death, which took place 
June 22, 1863. 

He held a high place in the esteem of his brethren 
in the ministry, and was elected Moderator of the 
General Assembly in 1860, and had the degree of D.D. 
conferred upon him. simultaneously by three colleges, 
the College of JN'ew Jersey, Williams College, and 
Miami University. 

His desire for knowledge was so powerful that he was 
never idle. His life was continuous labor, but his aims 
and his standard of perfection were often too high to 
be reached. He did not live to complete any of the 
great works that he had undertaken. He left in an 
incomplete state commentaries on the Gospel of John 
and the Epistle to the Eomans. Many of the sermons 
which he left in manuscript had never been preached 
by him, probably being laid aside for other trains of 
thought that had been suggested during their prepara- 
tion, and some of those preached had been prepared 



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one, two, and three years before they were delivered. 
He was a good classical scholar, and well acquainted 
with Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, but Logic 
and Metaphysics was the field in which he delighted 
to revel, and many of his deductions were of the most 
beautiful and satisfactory character. He was an 
eloquent preacher, and in describing and defining the 
emotions and afiections his deep study of the human 
mind made him peculiarly felicitous. The best 
thoughts in many of his sermons could only be par- 
tially apprehended by hearing them from his lips, and 
deserve a more permanent form. The numerous 
articles he furnished for the Princeton Beview are the 
most valuable of his published works. 

James "W. Dale, D.D., was a native of Wilmington, 
Del., but was reared in the city of Philadelphia, where 
he graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 
1831. He entered upon the study of law, but aban- 
doned it in favor of the ministry of the Gospel. He 
entered Princeton Seminary in 1833, and studied 
theology there and in the Seminary at Andover, Mass. 
It was his ardent desire to spend his life as a missionary 
in heathen lands, but in this, to his deep and lasting 
regret, he was hindered. In order to fit himself more 
fully for missionary work he entered upon a medical 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 247 

course in the University of Pennsylvania, and received 
the degree of M.D., at the close of the course. 

After entering the ministry Dr. Dale was for some 
time agent for the Pennsylvania Bible Society in the 
eastern counties of the State, then he became pastor of 
the churches of Middletown and Ridley, Pa., afterwards 
changing Ridley for the new church at Media, but 
continuing in Middletown in all for the space of 
twenty-five years. In this time he preached in various 
parts of Delaware County, giving himself with unre- 
served consecration to the work of preaching the 
Gospel wherever the opportunity offered. Several 
strong and growing churches started into life as the 
fruit of zealous efforts made outside of his own field of 
labor. In 1871 he became pastor of the Wayne Pres- 
byterian Church in Delaware County, and resigned the 
charge in 1874. In the latter part of his life he served 
the new church organized at Glen Riddle in Delaware 
County, and preached here until within a few weeks of 
his death, which occurred April 19, 1881, in the sixty- 
ninth year of his age. 

Dr. Dale wrote three volumes entitled, " Classic 
Baptism," " Judaic Baptism," and " Johannic Bap- 
tism," which exhibited great erudition, dialectic keen- 
ness, and the mastery of the whole literature of the 
Baptistic controversy. They won for him a wide 
reputation, made him the first authority on his side of 



248 PRESBYTERY 

the question in the land, and have been the armory of 
disputants ever since their appearance. 

The basis of Dr. Dale's character was honesty — hon- 
esty of thought and purpose, apd an inflexible adherence 
to his convictions when fully formed. He was never 
carried about with every kind of doctrine, but having 
formed his opinions with candor, and after patient con- 
sideration, he stood by them, without shrinking from 
any momentary unpopularity they might bring. He 
was for years a leader in the temperance movement in 
Delaware County, and was instrumental in securing a 
law by which the sale of intoxicating liquors was pro- 
hibited within the limits of Media. But the business 
of his life, to which he gave himself without reserve, 
was preaching the blessed gospel of God. He loved 
this work, and went far and wide to declare unto sinful 
men the mercy of God in Jesus Christ. Many were led 
to the Saviour by his ministry who remember him ten- 
derly now, and will be stars in his crow^n in the day 
that cometh. 

Caspar E,. Gregory, D.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
September 17, 1824, graduated from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1843, taught nearly two years, 1843- 
4, in private families, graduated at Princeton Seminary 
in 1847, was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadel- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 249 

phia, April 5, 1848, then taught another year, and was 
ordained an evangelist by the same Presbytery, May 
20, 1849. His field of labor was as a missionary under 
appointment of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign 
Missions, among the Choctaw Indians, at Spencer 
Academy, in the Indian Territory. At the end of one 
year his health gave way, under excessive labor, and 
he left the mission in July, 1850. He labored with 
much success as pastor of the Church at Oneida, IN'ew 
York, from February 9, 1852, until March 1, 1862. 
After a successful pastorate of the First Church at 
Bridgeton, ^ew Jersey, from May 12, 1864, until Oc- 
tober 7, 1873, he became Professor of Sacred Rhetoric 
in Lincoln University, Pa., where he labored zealously 
and most successfully until his death, which occurred 
February 26, 1882. His end was full of faith and hope. 
Dr. Gregory was an earnest man, throwing his whole 
heart into whatever he undertook. His mind was 
quick, vivacious, and well cultivated. His preaching 
was of a high quality, and as a Professor he was most 
devoted and faithful. 

William Chester, D.D., seventh Corresponding 
Secretary of the Board of Education, was born in 
Wetherstield, Connecticut, IlTovember 20, 1795, gradu- 
ated at Union College, E"ew York, in 1815, and studied 
at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1816-17. He 
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was licensed, it is supposed, by the Presbytery of 
Albany in 1818. December, 1819, he was called to the 
pastorate of the church in Gal way, ^N'ew York. A 
most remarkable work of grace ensued upon his settle- 
ment, and in April, 1820, one hundred and four were 
added to the church ; in the month of June of that year 
forty-six more were received into the communion of the 
church. HeleftGalwayinl822. On September 7, 1824, 
he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in 
Hudson, IN'ew York. His preaching and pastoral 
labors among the churches of that entire region were 
greatly owned of God. This, his last pastorate, was 
most happily and successfully continued until the Sum- 
mer of 1832, when, on the 10th of July, at the earnest 
solicitation of the Board of Education, it was reluc- 
tantly dissolved that he might occupy the States of 
Virginia and IN'orth Carolina as their representative. 
Dr. Chester thus entered the service of the Board of 
Education, and for three and thirty years in the various 
positions of Agent, General Agent, Associate Secretary 
and General Agent, and finally as Corresponding Secre- 
tary, he labored most successfully throughout the entire 
Church in this arduous work, until, in the maturity of 
his days, and witb the completion of most of his saga- 
cious plans for the advancement of education, he ceased 
from his labors, with the harness of office upon him. 
The records of the Board evince that Dr. Chester co- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 251 

operated most effectively both in counsels and in 
personal efforts with Dr. John Breckinridge, Dr. McFar- 
land, Dr. Hope, Dr. Yan Rensselaer, Dr. Wood, and 
indeed every other officer of the Board, from the days of 
Breckinridge until his service ended. Among the last 
educational schemes that enlisted his warm sympathies, 
in view of the alarming decrease of candidates for the 
ministry, was the satisfactory establishment of the 
Cortlandt-Yan Rensselaer Memorial Institute, the 
Ashmun Institute, and the College for the I^orthwest. 
He raised more money and means for education in the 
Presbyterian Church than any of his coadjutors. He 
died May 23, 1865, in the seventieth year of his age. 
He had the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Wash- 
ington College, Pa. 

Henry Steele Clarke, D.D., was born in Somers, 
Conn., in 1818. His literary education was begun iu 
Hamilton College, ]^. Y., and was continued at Yale 
College, Conn., where he graduated in September, 1841. 
His first charge was Willoughby, Ohio. He was in- 
stalled pastor at Manchester, IST. H., September 20, 
1849, and his ministry in that congregation continued 
until 1852, when he accepted the cordial and unani- 
mous call of the Central Presbyterian Church, Phila- 
delphia, where he labored with great zeal and success 
until his death, January 17, 1864. Dr. Clarke's abili- 



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ties as a preacher were always acknowledged to be of a 
high order. He had a graceful presence, a persuasive 
manner and exact and careful taste, good judgment, a 
quick fancy, an acute and discriminating intellect. As 
a pastor he was no less efficient and successful than as 
a preacher. He was an accomplished gentleman, an 
earnest Christian, a faithful friend, and greatly beloved 
by his brethren and the people of his charge. 

Hugh S. Dickson, D.D., was born in County Down, 
Ireland. He graduated at Union College, ]N". Y., in 
1839, and studied theology at Princeton Seminary. 
He was Stated Supply at JN'atchez, Miss., 1841-2, or- 
dained by the Presbytery of Louisville May 5, 1843, 
pastor at Bardstown, Ky., 1842-4, and pastor at Fort 
Wayne, Ind., 1844-7. Subsequently he was pastor of 
the Westminster Church, Utica, K Y., 1848-58, Stated 
Supply at Washington Heights, IS'ew York City, 1858- 
9, and pastor at Lewisburg, Pa., 1860-66. Dr. Dick- 
son, after resigning his last pastoral charge, removed to 
West Chester, Pa., where he lived for several years, 
then changed his residence to Philadelphia, in which 
city he died, in great peace, in the fall of 1887. Dr. 
Dickson, as a member of the Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia, took an earnest, active and useful part in its de- 
liberations and operations, as well as in the promotion 
of the general interests of the church with which he 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 253 

had been so long identified. He preached frequently 
for his brethren, as he had opportunity. Dr. Dickson 
was a gentleman of genial spirit and sound judgment. 
He was an able theologian, an instructive and forcible 
preacher, a strong debater, and his ministry, in the 
several fields of labor which he occupied, was sealed 
with many evidences of his fidelity and acceptableness 
in the work to which his life was devoted. 

Charles Wadsworth, D.D., was born at Litch- 
field, Conn., May 8, 1814, graduated from Union 
College, 'New York, 1837 ; after his graduation, taught 
one year in Canajoharie, !N". Y., spent two years, 1838- 
40, in Princeton Seminary, was licensed by Troy Pres- 
bytery, October 23, 1840, was ordained by the same 
Presbytery, February 17, 1842, and on the same day 
installed pastor of the Second Church of Troy, ]!»r. Y., 
from which, after eight years of brilliant and most 
successful pulpit service, he was released, March 5, 
1850. From March 20, 1850, to April 3, 1862, he was, 
with great popularity and efi*ectiveness, pastor of the 
Arch Street Church, Philadelphia. He was installed 
I«fovember 5, 1862, over Calvary Church, San Francisco, 
Cal., and after it had been greatly enlarged and 
strengthened by his labors, he was released, ISTovember 
13, 1869. He was installed December 19, 1869, pastor 
of the Third Reformed Dutch Church, Philadelphia. 



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In 1873 this Church united with the "Western Presby- 
terian Church, under the new name of Immanuel Pres- 
byterian Church. The court having decided that this 
church could not hold the church property of the 
Third Reformed Church, in February, 1878, Immanuel 
Church was united with the Clinton Street Church, 
under the name of the Clinton Street Immanuel Church, 
and Dr. Wadsworth was installed its pastor, March 25, 
1879, continuing to be so until his death, April 1, 
1882. Dr. Wadsworth was gifted with a brilliant and 
inexhaustible imagination, great pathos of tone and 
earnestness of manner, a power of presenting gospel 
truth in a wonderfully fresh and impressive manner. 
For a long course of years the large churches in which 
he preached were densely packed with eager hearers. 
In private life he was ordinarily shy, diffident, and re- 
served, but among his special friends was cordial, frank, 
and often full of humor. 

Lyman Coleman, S.T.D., was born in Middleiield, 
Mass., June 14, 1796. He graduated at Yale College 
in 1817, and for three succeeding years was Principal 
of the Latin Grammar School at Hartford, Conn. , and 
subsequently a Tutor at Yale for four years, where he 
studied theology. In 1828 he became pastor of the Con- 
gregational Church in Belchertown, Mass, and held the 
charge for seven years, afterwards Principal of the Burr 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 255 

Seminary, Yermont, for five years, then Principal of 
the English Department of Phillips Academy for five 
years. The years 1842-43 he spent in Germany, in 
study and in travel, and on his return was made Pro- 
fessor of German in the College of 'New Jersey. He 
continued here, and at Amherst, Mass., and Phila- 
delphia, the next fourteen years, in connection with 
difierent literary institutions. He again visited Europe 
in 1856, and extended his travels to the Holy Land, 
the Desert, and Egypt, and after his return he became 
Professor of Ancient Languages in Lafayette College, 
in discharging the duties of which his labors ceased. 
Dr. Coleman's principal published works are — 1. " The 
Antiquities of the Christian Church." 2. " The Apos- 
tolical and Primitive Church." 3. "An Historical 
Geography of the Bible." 4. " Ancient Christianity." 
5. "Historical Text-Book and Atlas of Biblical 
Geography." 

Egbert Davidson, D.D., was born in Carlisle, Pa., 
February 23, 1808, and was the only child of the Rev. 
Eobert Davidson, D.D., the second President of Dick- 
inson College. He was a graduate of this college, and 
of Princeton Seminary. In 1832 he became pastor of 
the McChord (or Second) Church of Lexington, Ky., 
and in this relation became distinguished for his pulpit 
eloquence and his earnest pastoral work. In 1840 he 



256 PRESBYTERY 

was called to the Presidency of Pennsylvania Univer- 
sity, in which position he continued two years. He 
entered on the pastorate of the First Presbyterian 
Church in 'New Brunswick, ^N". J., May 4, 1843, and 
there labored assiduously and successfully until October 
4, 1859. Subsequently he was pastor of the Spring 
Street Church, New York, from 1864 to 1868. His 
last pastoral charge was the First Church of Hunting- 
ton, Long Island. Eesigning this charge on account of 
impaired health, he afterwards resided in Philadelphia 
until his death, which occurred April 6, 1876. 

Dr. Davidson served the General Assembly as its 
Permanent Clerk from 1845 to 1850. For a quarter of 
a century he was a member of the Board of Foreign 
Missions, for ten years preceding his decease a Director 
of Princeton Seminary, and in 1869 was one of our 
Assembly's delegates to the General Assembly of the 
Free Church of Scotland. He was a frequent con- 
tributor to the periodical literature of the day through- 
out his ministerial life, and up to the time of his death. 
He published a large number of pamphlets, sermons, 
etc., and contributed several able articles to the Prince- 
ton Review. He was also the author of a number of 
volumes, the largest and best known of which is prob- 
ably his " History of the Presbj^terian Church in 
Kentucky." He was a man of fine culture, a scholar, 
and a writer of great purity and elegance. In private 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 257 

intercourse he was kind and courteous, but also digni- 
fied. As a minister of Christ he won, and maintained 
to the end, a high position. During the last years of 
his life he was a useful member of the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia. 

Elias R. Beadle, D.D., was born in Cooperstown, 
I^. Y., October 13, 1812. He studied theology under 
Dr. E. N.- Kirk, of Albany, and was licensed to preach 
at Utica, ^N". Y., in 1835. The next year he was 
ordained at Buffalo, and assumed the pastorate of the 
First Presbyterian Church at Albion, IlsT. Y. In June, 
1839, he went as a missionary under the A. B. C. F. M. 
to the Druses in Mount Lebanon. The Druse war 
effectually ending all work among that people. Dr. 
Beadle returned to this country, and went to New 
Orleans, where he assisted in editing the 'New Orleans 
Protestant. Aside from this, as the result of his wise 
and indomitable energy, there were organized the Third, 
the Fourth, and the Prytanic Street Churches, over 
the last of which he was pastor from 1843 to 1852, 
when he was called to the Pearl Street Congregational 
Church of Hartford, Conn., there remaining until 1863. 
In 1864 he was called to the First Presbyterian Church 
of Rochester, N. Y., where he labored for a year, though 
not accepting the call. ^N'ovember 12, 1865, he was 



258 PRESBYTERY 

installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of 
Philadelphia, Pa., where he remained until January 6, 
1879, when he was suddenly seized with an attack of 
angina pectoris, on his way home from morning service, 
and entered into rest before the dawn of another day. 
His last words were, — " Lord, is this the way ?" 

Dr. Beadle, without the advantages of either College 
or Seminary discipline, yet stood in the foremost rank 
among scholars. His thirst for knowledge was insati- 
able, and he was a scientist of recognized ability. He 
was a man of wonderful personal magnetism, both in 
and out of the pulpit, and his deep sympathy with the 
troubled and sorrowing, and his ability to comfort them 
in his ministrations, gave a rare power to his work. 
Remarkable at almost every point, he was in nothing 
more so than in the fervency, beauty, and pathos of his 
prayers. Here he was inimitable. The tenderness of 
his manner, the majesty of his thoughts, the glorious 
richness of their expression, his deep sympathy with 
human needs, and the unwavering assurance of a 
Father's love, made men forget everything but God, 
as they knelt in His presence. His sermons were rich 
in thought and beautiful in expression, clear, simple, 
full of the power of the Holy Ghost, and captivating 
by their earnest, forcible, fresh presentation of truth, 
and by their great spirituality and helpfulness. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 259 

John W. Dulles, D.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
November 4, 1823. He graduated at Yale College in 
1844, and at Union Theological Seminary in 1848. He 
sailed for Southern India, as a missionary of the 
American Board, in 1848, but was compelled, by the 
loss of his voice and the illness of his family, to leave 
that field, and returned to Philadelphia in 1852. For 
three years he served the American Sunday-School 
Union, having charge of the missionary work of the 
society. In 1857 he became editor of the Publication 
Committee of the Presbyterian General Assembly Q^, 
S.), and in this position gave great satisfaction. At 
the reunion of the two branches of the Presbyterian 
Church, in 1870, he was elected editorial secretary of the 
United Board of Publication, and edited its tracts, 
books, and periodicals from that date. 

Dr. Dulles was a gentleman of polished and pleasant 
address, and of admirable Christian character. Modest 
and retiring in disposition, he was yet firm in his con- 
victions, and an indefatigable and efficient laborer in 
the vineyard of the Lord. The Sabbath School in the 
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, of which he was 
the faithful superintendent for many years, was, as it 
still is, one of tte largest in the city, and a model of 
order, discipline, and careful spiritual training. He 
discharged his duties as secretary of the Board of Edu- 
cation with great zeal, ability, judiciousness, and ac- 



260 PRESBYTERY 

ceptableness until his death, which occurred in 1887. 
Dr. Dulles was justly held in high regard by his breth- 
ren for his attractive spirit and sterling worth. He 
was the author of two interesting and valuable volumes, 
entitled ''Life in India," and "The Ride Through 
Palestine." 

Z. M. Humphrey, D.D., was born at Amherst, Mass., 
August 80, 1824, and died in Cincinnati, !N'ovember 13, 
1881. He graduated at Amherst College and at An- 
dover Theological Seminary. He was pastor of 
churches at Racine and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1850- 
59, of First Presbyterian Church, Chicago, 1859-68, of 
Calvary Church, Philadelphia, 1868-75, Professor of 
Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity in Lane Theo- 
logical Seminary, Cincinnati, 1875-81, and Moderator 
of the General Assembly at Chicago in 1871. Dr. 
Humphrey was a gentleman of lovely spirit and schol- 
arly attainments, a gifted preacher, and a faithful 
servant of Christ. 

Rev. John Chambers, D.D., was born in Stewartstown, 
Ireland, December 19, 1797, and was brought by his 
parents to this country w^hile an infant. After spend- 
ing some years in Ohio, they removed to Baltimore, 
where the son was employed in mercantile life. At 
the age of seventeen he connected himself with the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 261 

Associated Reformed Church under He v. John M. 
Duncan, and was by that eminent divine induced to 
prepare for the ministry, which he did under his di- 
rection. In May, 1825, he was installed pastor of the 
!N'inth Associate Reformed Church in Philadelphia. 
The congregation were M^orshiping in a house built on 
Thirteenth above Market Street by Margaret Duncan, 
Rev. Mr. Duncan's mother, in pursuance of a vow made 
by her when in imminent peril of shipwreck. In 
1831 they removed to their present noble edifice at the 
corner of Broad and Sansom streets. When Mr. Dun- 
can, about this time, renounced the jurisdiction of the 
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, into 
which the Associate Reformed, with Dr. Mason and 
others, had been merged. Dr. Chambers followed his 
example Trom sympathy with his teacher. His church 
was known as the First Independent Church till Oc- 
tober, 1873, when he and his congregation again sought 
and were cheerfully admitted to a connection with the 
Presbyterian body. The reception of this large and 
influential church, with their esteemed pastor, was 
hailed at the time as an event of the most interesting 
kind. By order of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, the 
style of the church was changed, in honor of the pas- 
tor, to " The Chambers Presbyterian Church." 

In May, 1875, the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Cham- 
bers' pastorate was joyously celebrated, on which occa- 



262 PRESBYTERY 

sion he delivered an historical sermon, containing, 
among other items of interest, the statement that he had 
received three thousand five hundred and eighty-six 
members into the church, of whom twelve hundred are 
the number constituting the present actual member- 
ship ; that between thirty and forty young men had 
entered the gospel ministry ; that he had married two 
thousand three hundred and twenty-nine couples, and 
had attended between four thousand and five thousand 
funerals. He had preached on an average three ser- 
mons a week, which, for fifty years, would amount to 
a grand total (allowing necessary deductions) of more 
than seven thousand sermons. Dr. Chambers was no 
friend to sensational novelties of any sort, yet he had 
an extraordinary hold on the young people, and his 
weeknight prayer-meetings, with an attendance of three 
hundred, were a standing wonder. 

Dr. Chambers' conspicuous attribute was power. 
For the sake of that commanding influence which he 
exerted over the masses, he deliberately sacrificed book- 
learning and minute criticism. Bold and frank in the 
expression of his opinions, even those who differed with 
him could not but respect and admire his courage. He 
fearlessly attacked the crying abuses, vices and errors 
of the day, and was sometimes threatened with personal 
violence on account of his plainness of speech. He 
scourged the men of Succoth with thorns. Like John 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 263 

Knox, he called a spade a spade. His majestic person, 
his leonine mien, his clarion voice, his unquestionable 
sincerity, added weight to the fulminations of the 
pulpit. All that saw him, all that heard him, bore 
witness, voluntarily or involuntarily, that " this was a 
man." Like the prophets of the olden time, he only 
lived for the salvation of souls, and his sole concern was 
to preach the preaching that the Lord bade him. 

Four brief months after the remarkable ovation of 
his fiftieth anniversary, towards midnight on the 22d 
of September of the year 1875, his useful life was 
brought to a close. The foundation for the malady 
that took him off had been laid by partial paralysis 
two years previously. Perhaps it is not too much to 
say that no man could have died in the city of Phila- 
delphia more sincerely or more widely lamented by all 
classes of society and all denominations of Christians. 

William M. Baker, D.D., was born in Washington, 
D. C, June 5, 1825. He graduated at the College of 
]S'ew Jersey in 1846, and studied theology at Princeton 
Seminary. He was Stated Supply at Batesville, Ar- 
kansas, in 1849, and at Galveston, Texas, in 1850. He 
was subsequently pastor at Austin, 1850-65 ; at Zanes- 
ville, Ohio, 1866-72 ; at :N"ewburyport, Mass., 1872- 
74 ; at Boston, 1874-81 ; and at Philadelphia (South 
Presbyterian Church), 1881-82, being soon obliged to 



264 PRESBYTERY 

relinquish this pastorate on account of impaired health. 
He died in Boston, August 21, 1883. While continu- 
ing his ministry Dr. Baker also entered upon literary 
work, and for several years was wholly given to this 
kind of work. One of the productions of his pen was 
" His Majesty Myself." He was a constant writer for 
the newspapers and the literary magazines, and his 
writings were always popular. He was a good man, a 
true servant of Christ, striving always to honor His 
name and extend the power of His truth. 



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CHAPTER IX. 

PROMINENT (deceased) ELDERS OF THE PRESBYTERY. 

John Bayard, a friend to his country, and an emi- 
nent Christian, was born August 11, 1738, at Bohemia 
Manor, in Cecil County, Maryland. After receiving an 
academical education under Dr. Finley, he was put into 
the counting-house of Mr. John Rhea, a merchant of 
Philadelphia. Here the seeds of grace began first to 
take root, and to give promise of those fruits of right- 
eousness which afterwards abounded. He early became 
a communicant of the Presbyterian Church, under the 
charge of Rev. Gilbert Tennent. Some years after his 
marriage he was chosen a ruling elder, and he filled the 
office with zeal and efficiency. Mr. Whitefield, while 
on his visits to America, became intimately acquainted 
with Mr. Bayard, and was much attached to him. 
They made several tours together. When his brother's 
widow died, Mr. Bayard adopted the children and 
educated them as his own. One of them was an eminent 
statesman. 

At the commencement of the Revolutionary War 
Mr. Bayard took a decided part in favor of his country. 
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At the head of the Second Battalion of the Philadelphia 
Militia he marched to the assistance of Washington, 
and was present at the Battle of Trenton. He was a 
member of the Council of Safety, and for many years 
Speaker of the Legislature. In 1785 he was appointed 
a member of the Old Congress then sitting in 'New 
York. In 1788 he removed to New Brunswick, where 
he was Mayor of the city, Judge of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas, and a ruling elder of the church. Here 
he died January 7, 1807. His death was one of 
triumph. 

Hugh Williamson, M.D., F.R.S., was born in West 
Nottingham, Chester County, Pa., December 5, 1735, 
graduated at the Philadelphia College May 17, 1757, 
and after the study of theology was licensed to preach 
the Gospel. After two years, finding that his health 
was not adequate to the duties of the office, he left the 
pulpit and entered upon the study of medicine. About 
1760 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics in 
Philadelphia College (now the University of Pennsyl- 
vania), but continued his medical studies, which, after 
1764, were completed at the University of Edinburgh, 
in London, and at Utrecht. 

Dr. Williamson practised medicine in Philadelphia 
during which he served as a ruling elder in the First 
Presbyterian Church. In 1768 he was chosen a mem- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 267 

ber of the American Philosophical Society. In 1770 
he published " Observations on Climate" in the "Ameri- 
can Philosophical Transactions." In 1772 he visited 
the West Indies to collect contributions in aid of the 
Academy at I^ewark, Del. In 1773 he v^ent with Eev. 
John Ewing to Europe to solicit further aid for this 
Institution. On his return to this country he settled 
at Edenton, IST. C. At the close of the war he served 
as a representative of Edenton in the House of Com- 
mons of North Carolina. He was next sent to Congress 
from " the old I:Torth State," where he continued for 
three years, as long a term as the law at that time 
allowed. He was a member on that memorable occa- 
sion, December 23, 1783, when Washington, at Anna- 
polis, tendered his commission and claimed the 
indulgence of retiring from the public service, and his 
fine conimanding figure is prominent in the grand pic- 
ture of this sublime scene, which was painted by Trum- 
bull, and which now adorns the rotunda of the Capitol 
at Washington. In 1786 he was one of the few delegates 
sent to Annapolis to revise and amend the Articles of 
Confederation of the Union, and in 1787 he was a 
delegate from North Carolina to the Convention which 
framed the Constitution of the United States. He was 
a zealous advocate of the new Constitution, and was a 
member of the State Convention which adopted it. 



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He served in the first and second Congress, and then 
declined a re-election. 

In 1789 Dr. Williamson removed to the city of l^ew 
York, where he continued industriously to write on 
various philosophical subjects, was an advocate of the 
great 'New York canal system, an active promoter of 
philanthropic, literary and scientific institutions, and in 
1812 gave to the world his " History of JS'orth Caro- 
lina." He died May 22, 1819. He was an ornament to 
his country, and one of the most eminent and useful 
men which it has yet produced. An interesting memoir 
of him was prepared and published by the distinguished 
Dr. Hosack, of IsTew York, and has now a place in 
the Transactions of the New York Historical Society. 

Robert Patterson, LL.D., the fourth Director of 
the United States Mint at Philadelphia, was born in 
the Province of Ulster, Ireland, May 30, 1743. Al- 
though his opportunities for education were very 
limited, he was enabled, principally by his energies, to 
acquire a solid foundation of learning, especially in 
mathematics and physical science. He emigrated to 
America in 1768, where he found employment as a 
teacher. He was engaged in that capacity as Principal 
of the Academy at Wilmington, Delaware. When the 
war of the Revolution broke out, Mr. Patterson, while 
a mere youth, had acquired some knowledge of the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 269 

military art while acting as a volunteer for the defence 
of Ireland against a threatened French invasion. Ar- 
dently devoted to the cause of the Colonies, he now 
tendered his services as a military instructor, and after- 
wards entered the Revolutionary army, where he acted 
in the various capacities of Adjutant, Assistant Sur- 
geon, and Brigade Major. He continued in the service 
until after the evacuation of Philadelphia and ISTeW 
Jersey. In 1779 he was elected Professor of Mathe- 
matics in the University of Pennsylvania, which posi- 
tion he occupied until the year 1814. "Arduous as 
were his duties in the University" (we quote from a 
memoir by Chief Justice Tilghman) " he found time 
for other useful employments. Being highly esteemed 
by his fellow-citizens, he was elected a member of the 
Select Council of Philadelphia, of which he was chosen 
President in 1799. In the year 1805 he received from 
President Jefferson, with whom he had been in habits 
of friendship, the appointment of Director of the Mint. 
This office he filled with great reputation, until his last 
illness, when he resigned." He died soon after, in 
Philadelphia, on the 22d of July, 1824, in his eighty- 
second year. 

Mr. Patterson occupied a high position in his adopted 
country, and was on terms of intimacy and correspond- 
ence with many of its leading men in learning and 
science. He took an active part in the proceedings of 



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the American Philosophical Society, of which he finally 
became President, and communicated several scientific 
papers to its Transactions. He was the author of a 
Treatise on Arithmetic, and edited several works on 
science. In manners, Mr. Patterson was dignified, but 
afi:able. His religious convictions were sincere, and 
bore fruit in his daily life. He was long an elder in 
the Presbyterian Church. The portrait of him in the 
Mint Cabinet is copied from the excellent original by 
Rembrandt Peale. 

Alexander Henry, Esq., was born in the north of 
Ireland, June, 1766. He came to Philadelphia in 1783, 
then eighteen years of age, and at once engaged as a 
clerk in the dry-goods trade, in which he soon achieved 
the honors and emoluments of a successful commission 
merchant. He united with the Second Presbyterian 
Church, Philadelphia, August 4, 1803, and was ordained 
a ruling elder in the same church, January, 1818. In 
June, 1832, when the Central Presbyterian Church was 
organized, Mr. Henry's name was standing at the head 
of the list of its members. He was one of its first two 
ruling elders, the first president of its Trustees, and one 
of the most liberal contributors to its support. June 
7, 1831, he was elected President of the Board of Edu- 
cation, which position, amid many days of trial to the 
cause, he very ably filled for sixteen years, until the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 271 

day of his death, August 13, 1847, in the eighty-second 
year of his age. As a Christian merchant, as a ruling 
elder, as a Sabbath-school teacher, as a distributor of 
religious tracts — first introduced by him into America 
— as the President of the Board of Education, of the 
House of Refuge, of the Magdalen Society, and of the 
American Sunday-School Union, Mr. Henry won the 
esteem of his colleagues, and the love and admiration 
of all for whom he labored. Long before the organ- 
ization of the Board of Education, he generously as- 
sisted pious youths in their preparation for the gospel 
ministry. The life of such a man is his best eulogy. 

Matthew L. Bevan, Esq., was born at Old Chester, 
Delaware County, Pa., August 23, 1777. He was for 
many years a commission and shipping merchant — the 
leading member of the firm of Bevan & Humphreys. 
His early religious training was among the Quakers, 
but he was baptized and received into the Church under 
the ministry of Dr. J. J. Janeway, then pastor of the 
Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. Mr. Bevan 
was one of the founders of the Central Presbyterian 
Church of that city, and was made a ruling elder with 
Messrs. Alexander Henry and Matthew Newkirk. 
Through the influence of Dr. John Breckenridge, then 
Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Education, 
Mr. Bevan, who was long and intimately connected 



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with him in educational labors, was chosen his successor 
in the Presidency of the Board, September 2, 1847, 
which position he filled with great acceptance until his 
death, December 11, 1849. His hospitality was large, 
and his generosity constant towards young men strug- 
gling to fit themselves for the work of the ministry. 

Joseph P. Engles, Esq., the son of Silas and Annie 
(Patterson) Engles, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
January 3, 1793, and graduated at the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1811. In 1813 he was appointed co- 
master of the Grammar School of that institution. In 
1817 he was associated with Samuel B. Wylie, D.D.,in 
conducting an academy, and after Dr. Wylie's with- 
drawal from it, it was under his sole charge for twenty- 
eight years. In February, 1845, Mr. Engles was elected 
by the Board of Publication as its Publishing Agent, 
and in this position realized the expectations of the 
friends of the Board. He was an elder in the Scots 
Presbyterian Church until the time of his death, April 
14, 1861. He was a gentleman of varied literary 
acquirements, and of signal affability and kindness. 
The spiritual element of his character was pre-eminent, 
it entered into his daily life and walk, it permeated all 
he said and did, to visit the widow and the fatherless, 
and keep himself unspotted from the world, was his 
earnest desire, and fully was it realized. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 273 

Matthias W. Baldwin was born in Elizabethtown, 
N. J., December 10, 1795. From early childhood he 
exhibited a remarkable fondness for mechanical con- 
trivances. He learned the business of manufacturing 
jewelry in Frankford, Pa., and in 1819 commenced it 
on his own account in Philadelphia, but in consequence 
of financial difficulties, and the trade becoming 
depressed, soon abandoned it. His attention was then 
drawn to the invention of machinery, and one of his 
first efibrts in this direction was a machine whereby the 
process of gold-plating was greatly simplified. He next 
turned his attention to the manufacture of book- 
binders' tools, to supersede those which had been, up to 
that time, of foreign .production, and the enterprise 
was a success. He next invented the cylinder for 
printing calicoes, which had always been previously 
done by hand-presses, and he revolutionized the entire 
business. When the first locomotive engine in 
America, imported by the Camden and Amboy Pail- 
road Company in 1830, arrived, he examined it carefully, 
and resolved to construct one after his own ideas. At 
the earnest request of Franklin Peale, proprietor of the 
Philadelphia Museum, he undertook to build a minia- 
ture engine for exhibition. His only guide in this 
work consisted of a few imperfect sketches of the one 
he had examined, aided by descriptions of those in use 
on the Liverpool and Manchester Pailway. He success- 



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fully accomplished the task, and on the 25th of April, 
1831, the miniature locomotive was running over a 
track in the Museum rooms, a portion of this track 
being laid on the floors of the transepts, and the bal- 
ance passing over trestle work in the naves of the 
building. Two small cars holding four persons were 
attached to it, and the novelty attracted immense 
crowds. 

Having received an order to construct a road loco- 
motive for the Germantown Railroad, the work was 
accomplished, and on its trial trip, !N'ovember 23, 1832, 
the engine proved a success. It weighed five tons, and 
was sold for three thousand five hundred dollars. In 
1834 he constructed an engine for the South Carolina 
Railroad, and also one for the Pennsylvania State Line, 
running from Philadelphia to Columbia. The latter 
weighed seventeen thousand pounds, and drew at one 
time nineteen loaded cars. This was such an unpre- 
cedented performance that the State Legislature at once 
ordered several additional ones, and two more were 
completed and delivered during the same year, and he 
also constructed one for the Philadelphia and Trenton 
Railroad. In 1835 he built fourteen, in 1836 forty. 
His success was now assured, and his works became 
the largest in the United States, perhaps in the world. 
Engines were shipped to every quarter of the globe, 
even to England, where they had been invented, and 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 275 

the name of Baldwin grew as familiar as a household 
word. Mr. Baldwin was one of the founders of the 
Franklin Institute. He was an exemplary Christian, 
and a very useful elder of the Presbyterian Church. 
He gave very liberally and cheerfully of his large means 
for the cause of Christ. His name is held in honored 
remembrance in the community in which he lived. His 
death occurred September 7, 1866. 

Charles Macalester, merchant and banker, was 
born in Philadelphia February 17, 1798. He received 
a liberal education, first at Grey and Wylie's School, 
and afterwards at the University of Pennsylvania. 
While at the latter institution, during the war of 1812, 
when fifteen years of age, he commanded a company of 
forty boys, who worked for two days assisting to make 
the fortifications upon the west side of the Schuylkill. 
Early in life he embarked in mercantile pursuits, and 
in 1821 removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained 
until 1827 when he returned to Philadelphia, and com- 
menced business there, amassing a large fortune. He 
retired from active business in 1849, occupying himself 
subsequently with his private affairs, and various trusts 
and executorships. He died December 9, 1873, 
regretted by an unusually wide circle of friends and 
acquaintances. 

Mr. Macalester was one of the Trustees of the Pea- 



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body Edacatiou Fund from its first institution. He 
was also President of the St. Andrew's Society, and of 
the Orthopaedic Hospital, a director (from the time of 
its organization) of the Fidelity Insurance, Trust and 
Safe Deposit Company, of the Presbyterian Hospital, 
and of the Insurance Company of the State of Penn- 
sylvania, of which latter company his father had been 
President. In 1873 he gave for the establishment of 
a college in Minneapolis a valuable property, consisting 
of a large building with extensive grounds attached, 
then named by the Trustees the " Macalester College," 
and also confirmed the same by his will. 

Eminently successful himself in all his undertakings, 
Mr. Macalester was always ready to aid by his advice, 
and by active assistance, those who were beginning 
life's battle or struggling with adversity. Unobtrusive 
in all he did, generous in every sense of the word, he 
was universally beloved and honored. His private 
character was one of the greatest purity, unselfishness 
and loveliness, charitable in all his judgments, and 
indulgent to the weaknesses and faults of others, no 
harsh comments or unkind aspersions ever passed his 
lips. For a number of jesivs he was a faithful elder of 
the Second Presbyterian Church. 

H. Lenox Hodge, M.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
July 30, 1836. His father was the eminent Physician, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 277 

Dr. Hugh L. Hodge. He received a collegiate educa- 
tion, which terminated in 1855, in his native city, and 
afterwards studied medicine at the University of Penn- 
sylvania, wheriB he graduated in 1858. In the Fall of 
the same year he became resident physician of the 
Pennsylvania Hospital, retaining that office till the 
spring of 1860, when he opened an office for the prac- 
tice of medicine in Philadelphia. He was appointed 
Demonstrator of Surgery in the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, and, in 1861, commenced giving instruction to 
private classes, on Chestnut Street, between ISTinth and 
Tenth streets, and subsequently lectured in Chant 
Street, on Anatomy and Operative Surgery. In 1870 
he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy in the 
University of Pennsylvania, and was, for nearly ten 
years, attending surgeon at the Children's Hospital. 
At the opening of the Presbyterian Hospital, in 1872, 
he was appointed attending surgeon to that institution. 
Dr. Hodge, by his talents, industry, integrity, and en- 
ergy, attained a high rank in his profession. He was 
a gentleman of polished address and peculiar benevo- 
lence. For a number of years he was an exemplary, 
active, and useful ruling elder in the Second Presby- 
terian Church. Removed by death, in the midst of 
his years, June 10, 1881, he bore his last and lingering 
illness with marked resignation, and left the record of 
one who had adorned all the relations of life by his 



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cultivated intellect, kind disposition, and exemplary 
Christian character. At the time of his decease he was 
a member of many medical societies and associations. 

Matthew I!^ewkirk was of a Huguenot family, from 
the south of Holland, the ancient form of the name 
being Yan Nieukierck. He was born. May 31, 1794, 
in Pittsgrove, Salem County, I^ew Jersey. At the age 
of sixteen he came to Philadelphia, where he became 
clerk and salesman in a dry-goods house. When the 
city was threatened by an English fleet, and the 
" Washington Guards" were enrolled for its defence, 
he attached himself to them, and went into camp near 
Wilmington, Delaware (1815). After the restoration 
of peace he entered into mercantile business, and soon 
succeeded in building up a considerable wholesale trade. 
Various business connections were formed from time to 
time until his retirement from active mercantile life in 
1839. Mr. I^ewkirk was a Director of the United 
States Bank, with his friend, the Hon. I^icholas Bid- 
die, and entered with the most earnest zeal into the 
construction of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and 
Baltimore Railroad, the first President of which he 
was, and which may almost be said to owe to him its 
very existence, certainly its completion at that early 
day. A marble monument, erected in testimony to his 
success in this work, may still be seen on the line of 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 279 

the road at Gray's Ferry, on the west bank of the 
Schuylkill, below Philadelphia. The Little Schuylkill 
E*avigation Railroad and Coal Company owes much of 
its present prosperous condition to his energy and 
perseverance. The same may be said of the Cambria 
Iron Works, at Johnstown, Pa., in which he became 
interested about 1854. 

Mr. E'ewkirk's interest in projects of social and re- 
ligious improvement equaled that in plans of industrial 
progress. Throughout life he was an earnest friend of 
the Temperance Cause. For years he acted as President 
of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. The 
Polytechnic College of the State of Pennsylvania almost 
owes its existence to his liberality and energy. For 
thirty-four years he was an active Trustee of the College 
of l^ew Jersey. In 1832 he united himself with the 
Central Presbyterian Church, of which he was for many 
years a deacon, trustee, and ruling elder, as well as 
General Superintendent of the Sabbath-School. He 
was also a Trustee of the General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian Church, and for twelve years its treasurer. 
Official trusts in the Boards of Publication, Education, 
and Domestic Missions were also confided to him, and 
the Pennsylvania State Sabbath Association elected him 
its President. Mr. ]!^ewkirk was a gentleman of plea- 
sing address and affiable spirit, generous, hospitable, 
and useful. He was greatly respected by the com- 



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munity in which his life was mainly spent, and by the 
church which he so long and faithfully served. His 
death occurred May 31, 1868. 

John S. Hart, LL.D., was born in Old Stockb ridge, 
Mass., January 28, 1810. In the Fall of 1827 he entered 
the Sophomore Class of the College of ^ew Jersey, and 
graduated in 1830, with the first honors of his class. 
After graduation he taught one year in the Academy 
at ISTatchez, Miss., and in the Fall of 1831 entered the 
Theological Seminary at Princeton. During the last 
two years of his attendance at the Seminary, he acted 
as tutor in the College, and in 1834 he was appointed 
adjunct Professor of Ancient Languages. Mr. Hart 
was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of 
"New Brunswick in 1835, but in the following year he 
was induced to become proprietor of Edgehill School, 
and regarding it as a permanent field of usefulness, re- 
quested the Presbj^tery to take back his license, which 
was formally cancelled. Professor Hart retained the 
charge of this school until 1842, when he was elected 
Principal of the Philadelphia High School. He found 
this institution in a state of feebleness, and placed it on 
a solid foundation of discipline, accomplishments, and 
popular confidence, making it a representative Ameri- 
can Institution. Resigning this position in 1859, he 
became editor of the periodicals published by the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 281 

American Sunday-School Union, and in this connection 
he began the Sunday School Times, In 1862 he was 
elected Principal of the I^ew Jersey State iN'ormal 
School at Trenton, and held that position with dis- 
tinguished usefulness and success until February, 1871. 
From 1864 to 1870 he also gave courses of lectures on 
English Literature in Princeton College. In 1872 he 
was elected Professor of Belles Lettres and English 
Literature in Princeton College, which chair he filled 
two years, returning, near the end of 1874, to Phila- 
delphia, where, engaged in literary pursuits, he resided 
until his death, which occurred March 26, 1877. He 
was an elder of the West Spruce Street Church. 

Professor Hart was a man of quiet and retiring man- 
ners, yet social and sunny in his temperament, an en- 
thusiast in the cause of education, a devoted Sabbath- 
School worker, of elegant culture, accurate and wide 
scholarship, author of many volumes, and possessing 
great force and earnestness of mind. But, above all, he 
was an humble, consistent, and devout Christian, 
always seeking, like his Master, to do good. 

Hon. George Sharswood, LL.D., was born in Phila- 
delphia, July 7, 1810, graduated at the University of 
Pennsylvania, studied law, and was admitted to the 
bar September 5, 1831. He served three years in the 

Pennsylvania Legislature, of which he was a prominent 
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and influential member. In 1845 he was made a Judge 
of the District Court, and was President Judge from 1851 
to 1867, when he was elected an Associate Judge of the 
State. For a number of years he was Chief Justice of 
the Supreme Court, and when, with the close of 1882, 
his term ended, concluding thirty-seven years and nine 
months of continuous judicial service, he received from 
the Philadelphia Bar a public testimonial which was 
worthy of the lustre which his eminent record had re- 
flected upon his State. 

The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon Judge 
Sharswood by the University of the City of New York, 
and also by Columbia College. In 1850 he was ap- 
pointed Professor of Law in the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and he filled this position a number of years 
with signal success. He contributed largely to the 
literature of the science by his works, as well as by his 
numerous decisions. In 1834 he published the first 
paper of his series on the Revised Code of Pennsylvania 
in the American Quarterly for June of that year. 
Within a twelvemonth he was elected one of the Yice- 
Provosts of the Philadelphia Law Academy. Soon 
afterward he published an American edition of " Eoscoe 
on Criminal Evidence," enriched with notes and ref- 
erences. His report on the aflEkirs of the United States 
Bank appeared in four closely printed columns of the 
United States Gazette of April 8, 1841. In 1843 he be- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 283 

came editor of the American Law Magazine. In 1844 
he gave to the legal world editions of Stephens' " Kisi 
Prius," and " Russell on Crimes." In 1852 he published 
the first of ^ve annual editions of " Bjles on Bills," 
and the next year undertook the work of editing the 
successive volumes of the English Common Law Re- 
ports, republished in Philadelphia, for the use of the 
American Bar — a labor which he continued from 
volume 65 to volume 90, inclusive. In 1854, the year 
he was elected Provost of the Law Academy, he pub- 
lished his absorbing work on " Professional Ethics," 
followed, two years later, by his " Popular Lectures on 
Commercial Law," originally prepared for the students 
of a business college. The ensuing years were devoted 
to the work which may be regarded as the culminating 
achievement of his literary life, and through which he 
became most quickly and widely known. This was his 
great edition of Blackstone's Commentaries, enriched 
with his own annotations. The work, important as it 
was, met with instant and universal acceptance from one 
end of the Union to the other. It was made the text- 
book in all the law schools in the United States, and was 
pronounced by the most eminent instructors in the law 
the best edition of Blackstone ever put before the public. 
Judge Sharswood was for many years an elder of the 
Tabernacle Church, and one of the Trustees of the 
General Assembly. He was a gentleman of great 



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suavity of disposition and pleasing address. He adorned, 
by his ability and integrity, every position he occupied, 
and justly enjoyed in the highest degree, the confidence 
and esteem of all who knew him. As a lawj^er, he 
was second to none in the history of the American Bar. 
He died May 28, 1883. 

David Rittenhouse, LL.D. This eminent mathema- 
tician was born at Germantown, Pa., April 8, 1732. 
His ancestors were emigrants from Holland. He was 
employed during the early part of his life in agricul- 
ture, and occupied himself habitually at that period 
with mathematical studies. While residing with his 
father he made himself master of " I^ewton's Prin- 
cipia," by an English translation, and also discovered 
the science of Fluxions, of which he for a long time 
supposed himself to be the first inventor. His consti- 
tution being too feeble for an agricultural life, he 
became a clock and mathematical instrument maker, 
and, without the aid of an instructor, produced work 
superior to that of the foreign artists. He also con- 
tinued and erected an orrery much more complete than 
any which had been before constructed. 

In 1770 he removed to Philadelphia, and employed 
himself in his trade. He was elected a member of the 
American Philosophical Society of that city, and one 
of the number appointed to observe the transit of 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 285 

Venus in 1769, an account of which he communicated 
to the Society. His excitement was so great on per- 
ceiving the contact of that planet with the sun at the 
moment predicted that he fainted. He was one of the 
commissioners employed to determine the boundary line 
between Pennsylvania and Virginia, and between 'New 
York and Massachusetts. He held the office of Treasurer 
of Pennsylvania from 1777 to 1789. In 1791 he was 
chosen President of the American Philosophical 
Society, and held the place till his death, which occurred 
June 26, 1796. He was also in 1792 appointed Director 
of the United States Mint, and continued in the office 
till 1795, when ill health induced him to resign. Dr. 
Benjamin Rush, in his eulogium of him before the 
American Philosophical Society, said, " He died like a 
Christian, interested in the welfare of all around him, 
believing in the resurrection and the life to come, and 
hoping for happiness from every attribute of the Deity." 
The grave of Dr. Eittenhouse is among those of 
distinguished men filling the burial-ground of the Old 
Pine Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. 

Elias Boudinot, LL.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
May 2, 1740. His parents were connected with the 
Second Church, and he was himself a prominent and 
useful member of the Presbyterian Church. After a 
classical education, he studied law under Richard 



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Stockton, and soon after entering on the practice of 
his profession in N'ew Jersey rose to distinction. He 
early espoused the cause of his country. In 1777 
Congress appointed him Commissary G-eneral of Pen- 
sioners, and in the same year he was elected a delegate 
to Congress, of which body he was elected the Presi- 
dent in ^November, 1782. In that capacity he put his 
signature to the treaty of peace. He returned to the 
profession of the law, but was again elected to Congress, 
under the new Constitution, in 1789, and was continued 
a member of the House six years. In 1796 Washington 
appointed him the Director of the Mint of the United 
States, as the successor of Rittenhouse. In this office 
he continued until 1805, when he resigned it, and, re- 
tiring from Philadelphia, passed the remainder of his 
life at Burlington, I^ew Jersey. He died October 24, 
1821, aged eighty-one. 

Hon. Joel Jones was born in Coventry, Conn., in 
1795. He graduated at Yale College in 1817, and soon 
after settled in Philadelphia, in the practice of law. 
He was a man of large legal knowledge. He did good 
service to the State as one of the revisers of its civil 
code, and some of the reports of the commissioners, 
which make the most important suggestions, were 
written by him. Some parts of the new system were 
remodelled and rewritten exclusively by him, as, for 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 287 

example, the disposition of the estates of intestates, and 
having been passed by the Legislature without the 
change of a word, they have scarcely been touched 
down to the present day. He was subsequently ap- 
pointed an Associate Judge, and then President Judge 
of the District Court of Philadelphia, and his memory 
is yet cherished by the Bar of that city and the com- 
munity, who remember the firm, impartial, and digni- 
fied, but kindly manner in which the law was adminis- 
tered by him as a judicial magistrate. 

Girard College never did a better thing than when it 
made Judge Jones its first President, and the career of 
usefulness on which that institution entered is largely 
due to the wise manner in which he interpreted the 
will of Mr. Girard and the legal provisions concerning 
it. In a few years he seemed to have found the ofiS.ce 
of President irksome, and returned to his favorite pur- 
suit of studying and practising the law. Immediately 
thereupon he was nominated as a candidate for Mayor 
of the city of Philadelphia, and was elected by a large 
popular vote. On retiring from this office he returned 
again to the law, and the force of his speech and pen 
was frequently felt in the courts. He also wrote for 
the magazines of the day, on literary, philosophic, and 
religious subjects. The volume published after his 
death, which he modestly entitled "I^otes on Scrip- 
ture," will long attest the thought which he gave to 



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the profoundest themes with which the human mind 
can become conversant. Judge Jones was a most ex- 
emplary Christian, and an active and useful member of 
the Presbyterian Church. He died February 3, 1860, 
at the age of sixty-five. 

Hugh L. Hodge, M.D., was the son of Dr. Hugh 
Hodge, of Philadelphia. His mother was Mary 
Blanchard, of Boston. He was horn in Philadelphia 
June 27, 1796. When he was two years old his father 
died, leaving Mrs. Hodge in very limited circumstances 
with two infants, the younger being Charles Hodge, 
then only six months old. These little lads owed much 
to their mother, who for years devoted all of her ener- 
gies to them. She had the satisfaction of living to see 
them both successfully engaged in their professions, and 
giving clear evidence that they would attain the high 
positions in each that they afterwards did. The boys 
were educated in Philadelphia and Somerville, and 
graduated from Princeton College. Hugh L. Hodge 
studied medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, 
and in 1820 began to practice in Philadelphia. The 
next year he taught the Anatomical Class of Dr. 
Horner, who was then in Europe. In 1823 he was 
appointed to a lectureship on surgery in a school which 
afterwards became the " Medical Institute." In 1835 
he was elected Professor of Obstetrics in the University 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 289 

of Pennsylvania ; lie retained the position until 1863. 
!N"o teacher ever gave a more thorough or a more con- 
scientious course of lectures. The strong feature of 
his teaching was not to display knowledge, but to 
impart it. His resignation w^as occasioned by his 
failure of vision. "With the aid of an amanuensis and 
his son he was able to prepare several important 
medical works for the press. 

He had seven sons, of whom five survived him. 
Four entered the ministry, and one, bearing his father's 
name, studied medicine. 

Dr. Hodge's grandfather, Andrew Hodge, took a 
prominent part in the organization of the Second Pres- 
byterian Church of Philadelphia. In this church Dr. 
Hodge was born and continued until his death. He 
professed his faith in 1830. As a church member no 
one showed a greater consistency, a broader philan- 
thropy, a more unrestricted liberality, or set a brighter 
example of loyal Christian faith. He was identified 
with all the enterprises of the church. He was elected 
ruling elder, but declined because of his professional 
engagements and the loss of his eyesight. When in 
1868 the congregation determined to move from 
Seventh and Arch streets and build on the corner of 
Walnut and Twenty-first streets. Dr. Hodge was 
chosen chairman of the building committee and labored 
earnestly to accomplish the result. He lived to see the 



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beautiful building erected, and was present at its dedi- 
cation. He died suddenly of angina pectoris on the 
26th of February, 1873. 

John A. Brown was born at Ballymena County, 
Ireland, May 21, 1788. His father, Alexander Brown, 
a gentleman of good family and large fortune, left 
Ireland in consequence of the political agitation, came 
to this country and established himself at Baltimore 
about the beginning of the present century. The son, 
after completing his education, and spending some time 
in his father's counting-house, in 1818 settled in Phila- 
delphia and engaged in business as an importing, job- 
bing, and general commission merchant, gradually 
becoming a banker. He soon attained a leading posi- 
tion in the business community, and was elected a 
Director of the old United States Bank, under the 
presidency of Mcholas Biddle. In 1838 he retired 
from active business pursuits, but still continued, as 
long as his health would permit, to take an influential 
part in the management of many public institutions. 
He had served as a Director of the Philadelphia Saving 
Fund Society from 1827, in which position he still con- 
tinued, his name for many years heading the list ; and 
mainly through his influence the handsome and sub- 
stantial building at Seventh and Walnut streets, in 
which its business is now conducted, was erected. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 291 

Mr. Brown was always active in religious and be- 
nevolent enterprises. He acted for many years as 
President of the American Sunday-School Union and 
of the Philadelphia Sabbath Association ; served as a 
manager of the Blind Asylum ; was chiefly instrumental 
in connection with Henry Baldwin in founding Calvary 
Presbyterian Church (of which he was a member), one 
of the largest and most useful in the city, contributing 
also the ground and a large share of the money for the 
chapel, and, finally, crowned a long career of usefulness 
and benevolence by donating three hundred thousand 
dollars to the Presbyterian Hospital, which was founded 
in West Philadelphia, in 1871. Mr. Brown died in 
Philadelphia, December 31, 1872, leaving an only son, 
Alexander Brown, of that city. His generous charities 
while living were supplemented by large bequests to 
numerous public institutions by the provisions of his 
will. He was very highly esteemed in the city of his 
residence for his integrity, public spirit, and Christian 
consistency, and has left the record of an untarnished 
name and an eminently useful life. 

Stephen Colwell, Esq., was born in Charlestown, 
now Wellsburgh, Western Virginia, March 25, 1800, 
graduated at Jefferson College in 1818, was admitted 
to the Bar in his native State in 1820, and pursued his 
profession closely in a circuit embracing two counties 



292 PRESBYTERY 

in Virginia, two in Ohio, and two in Pennsylvania, for 
fifteen years, residing during that time seven years in 
Ohio, and lastly for eight years in the city of Pitts- 
burgh. In 1836 he removed to Philadelphia. 

In Philadelphia Mr. Colwell engaged in the manu- 
facture of iron, and spent nearly all his leisure hours for 
thirty years in the study of Political Economy, and in 
studies connected with it, and in process of time col- 
lected the largest library, perhaps, in the country, upon 
these topics. He wrote much on this subject, begin- 
ning with a pamphlet on the " Removal of Deposits of 
the United States, from the Bank of the United States, 
by order of the President," in 1834. In 1851 he 
gave to the public " ISTew Themes for the Protestant 
Clergy ;" in 1852, " Politics for American Christians ;" 
in 1854, " The Position of Christianity in the United 
States ;" and in the same year his great work on " The 
Ways and Means of Commercial Payment." Many 
of his publications were chiefly directed to passing 
events, and did good service in their day ; the above 
will be permanently useful. He made a gift of his. 
library to the University of Pennsylvania, in view 
of a Chair of Social Science being created in that 
institution. Mr. Colwell was an active member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and President of the Board of 
Trustees of the General Assembly. ^ 



OP PHILADELPHIA. 293 



CHAPTER X. 

CHURCHES OF THE PRESBYTERY. 
FIRST CHURCH. 

In 1692 the Eev. Francis Makemie visited Phila- 
delphia, and it is probable that Presbyterians were 
gathered together and organized as a congregation at 
that time. Their first place of worship was a frame 
building on the northwest corner of Second and Chest- 
nut Streets, known as " the Barbadoes Warehouse."* 
It belonged to the Barbadoes Trading Company, and 
had been used by them as a place for the storage and 
sale of merchandise, but had been abandoned on account 
of reverses which came upon the company. 

In the Autumn of 1698 Mr. Jedediah Andrews, a 
licentiate from Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard 
College, began to preach to them. He was ordained 
and installed their pastor in the Autumn of 1701, the 
year in which Philadelphia received its charter as a 
city, and Edward Shippen became its Mayor. The 
place then contained 500 houses and a population of 
5000. 

* App. VII. 



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In 1704 the congregation erected its first Church 
building, on the south side of High (Market) Street, 
corner of Bank Street. It was surrounded by large 
buttonwood trees, from which it came to be known as 
the Buttonwood Church. It was enlarged in 1729, re- 
built in 1793, and finally abandoned on account of the 
encroachments of business, in 1820, after it had been 
occupied one hundred and sixteen years. The congre- 
gation then removed to the church edifice it still 
occupies, on Washington Square. In this first frame 
church the first American Presbytery was organized in 
1706. 

The pastors of this Church have been as follows : — 
'Rev. Jedediah Andrews, 1698 to 1747 ; the Rev. Samuel 
Hemphill was elected as an assistant or colleague of 
Mr. Andrews in 1735, but served in this capacity only 
a short time. In 1739 the congregation called the Rev. 
Robert Cross as collegiate pastor with Mr. Andrews. 
Upon the death of Mr. Andrews, in 1747, Mr. Cross con- 
tinued the pastoral office until June 22, 1758, when he 
resigned. During his pastorate the Rev. Francis Alison, 
D.D., was employed, in 1752, as assistant to Mr. Cross, 
and subsequently, as colleague with Dr. Ewing, until 
his death. Rev. John Ewing, D.D., was pastor from 
1759 to September 8, 1802. In 1801 the congregation 
called the Rev. John Blair Linn, D.D., as colleague, 
and on the death of Dr. Ewing, in 1802, he became 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 295 

sole pastor of the Church until his death, August 30, 
1804. Rev. James Patriot Wilson, D.D., was pastor 
from May, 1806, to the Spring of 1830. The Rev. 
Albert Barnes was installed pastor, June 25, 1830, and 
filled the pulpit until 1867, when he resigned and was 
appointed Pastor Emeritus, which position he retained 
until his death, in 1870. Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., 
LL.D., was pastor from 1868 to 1874, when the Rev. 
Lawrence M. Colfelt was installed as pastor of the 
congregation. Mr. Colfelt was succeeded by the Rev. 
George D. Baker, D.D., the present incumbent. 
Sketches of severalof these gentlemen will be found in 
this volume. 

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
in the United States met in this edifice in 1863, and 
the first meeting of the General Assembly after the 
" Reunion" was held here in May, 1870. 

The location of this church is "down-town," the 
population for many years having steadily moved to 
other sections of the city, but, notwithstanding the 
drain upon it, it is still under the ministry of its pres- 
ent acceptable and efficient pastor, numerically one of 
the strongest of the denomination in Philadelphia. 

Present Eldership. 
Samuel C. Perkins, George Griffiths, 

I^orris W, Harkness, Geo. T. Harris. 



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SECOND CHURCH. 



The growth of Presbyterianism in Philadelphia was 
very slow during the first half century of its existence. 
The growth of the city during the same period was by 
no means rapid. In 1750 Fourth Street was its western 
limit; it contained only 2076 houses and 15,000 inhabi- 
tants. Presbyterianism received a new impulse towards 
the middle of the century, from the immigration of 
many Presbyterian families, and also from the labors 
of the Rev. George Whitefield. Under his preaching 
large congregations were assembled and many converts 
were made. The revival w^as also accompanied with 
serious discussions. These discussions, together with 
the growth of the city, led to the formation, in 1743, 
of the Second Church, which had for its place of wor- 
ship the Whitefield Academy, on Fourth Street, south 
of Arch, and the celebrated Gilbert Tennent for its first 
pastor. Its first church edifice was erected and occu- 
pied in 1750, on the northwest corner of Third and 
Arch Streets, enlarged and reconstructed in 1809. In 
1837 the congregation removed to north Seventh Street, 
below Arch, and in 1872 it took possession of its stately 
and beautiful building, corner of Walnut and Twenty- 
first Streets. 

The Rev. Gilbert Tennent continued in the pastorate 
until his death in 1764. Oct. 21, 1762, Rev. George 




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PRESENT EDIFICE OF SECOND CHURCH, TWENTY-FIRST AND WALNUT. 



or PHILADELPHIA. 297 

Duffield, afterwards pastor of the Third Presbyterian 
Church in the city, was chosen as an assistant minister 
to Mr. Tennent, then in feeble and declining health, but 
he refused the call. On July 30, 1764, Rev. John Mur- 
ray, a native of Ireland, was called to the pastoral office, 
and was installed, but his connection with the church 
was of short duration. After an interval of nearly three 
years, the Rev. James Sproat, then pastor of the Con- 
gregational Church at Guilford, Conn., received a call, 
which he accepted, and was installed in March, 1769. 
About three years after the settlement of the Rev. Mr. 
Sproat, the enterprise at Campington was commenced. 
A small building was erected at the northwest corner 
of Coates and Second Streets for the purposes of public 
worship, as a kind of chapel of ease, or collegiate ap- 
pendage of this church, and was principally supplied 
by its pastors till it became an independent charge 
under the pastoral care of the Rev. James Patterson, 
in the year 1813. Dr. Sproat's ministry was termi- 
nated by his death, Oct. 18, 1793. 

On December 22, 1786, Mr. Ashbel Green, then a 
licentiate, was elected co-pastor with Dr. Sproat, and 
was ordained and entered upon the duties of his office 
May 15, 1787. In the Summer of 1794 Mr. John K 
Abeel, a licentiate of the Reformed Dutch Church, was 
called as an assistant both to Dr. Green and the Rev. 
Dr. John B. Smith, then pastor of the Third Presby- 

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298 PRESBYTERY 

terian Church in the city, to preach two-thirds of his 
time in this church, and one-third in the Third Church. 
He continued in this relation about a year and a half. 
Dr. Green had then the sole charge of the congregation 
till the Rev. Dr. Janeway was called to be his col- 
league, January 2, 1799, his ordination and installation 
taking place on the 13th of the June following. The 
church continued under their joint pastoral care till 
Dr. Green removed to Princeton to take charge of the 
College of l^ew Jersey, as its President, in 1812. 

In 1813 Mr. Thomas Skinner was called to be Dr. 
Janeway's colleague, and continued so to be till the Pall 
of 1816. In July, 1828, Dr. Janeway resigned his 
pastoral relation to take charge of a Professorship in 
the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa. 
On the 29th of September of the same year the Eev. 
Joseph Sandford was elected pastor of this church, 
which relation continued until December 25, 1831. 
During Mr. Sandford's ministry a division occurred in 
the church, which resulted in the organization in 1832 
of the Central Presbyterian Church. After a vacancy 
in the pastoral office of nearly two years, the Rev. 
Cornelius C. Cuyler, D.D., was installed pastor January 
14, 1834, which relation he sustained until his resigna- 
tion in 1850. Rev. Dr. Charles W. Shields was installed 
pastor October 18, 1850, and continued this relation 
until 1865, when he was elected to the Professorship of 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 299 

Science and Religion in E'ew Jersey College, which 
position he still occupies. Dr. Shields was succeeded 
in the pastorate hy the Rev. E. R. Beadle, D.D., a 
sketch of whom is elsewhere given. The present 
popular and efficient pastor, the Rev. Dr. J. S. 
Mcintosh, was installed March 17, 1881. 

The Second Presbyterian Church has contributed 
largely from its members to the formation of other 
churches which have sprung up in the city. This has 
particularly been the case with the churches of Camp- 
ington, now First Church, in the IN'orthern Liberties, 
the Eleventh Church on Vine Street, which became the 
West Arch Street Church, the Arch Street Church, the 
Seventh (now the Tabernacle) Church, and the Central 
Church, for many years located at the corner of Eighth 
and Cherry streets, but within a few years removed to 
Broad Street above Fairmount Avenue. It has in its 
day done its full share in the establishment and support 
of benevolent institutions. Many ministers have gone 
forth from its fold to preach the Gospel who were 
trained and aided by its prayers and contributions. The 
largest number of communicants was in 1832, before 
the division, when they amounted to seven hundred and 
eighty-nine. This church, born in a revival, was 
nursed in its early years, under God, by Whitefield, 
the Tennents, the Hodges, the Bayards, the Boudinots, 
the Hazards, the Eastburns, and their coadjutors, ^o 



300 PRESBYTERY 

church ever had more distinguished ruling elders from 
the olden time down to its later days. 

Present Eldership. 
H. T. Pitkin, Peter Boyd, 

Charles F. Haseltine, Moses W. Woodward, 

Mahlon S. Stokes, William P. Logan, 

John C. Reading, John Scollay. 

Paul GraiF, 



THIRD CHURCH. 

In 1761 a movement was commenced which resulted 
in the formation of the Third Church and in the build- 
ing of a new church edifice at Fourth and Pine Streets, 
" for the benefit of the inhabitants down on the hill." 
The spread of the city and the increase of the congre- 
gation of the First Church rendered this step necessary. 
A house and lot were purchased at the corner of Second 
and South Streets, and public worship was there estab- 
lished by the pastor of the First Church. 

In 1762 a committee was appointed to ask of the 
Pennsylvania proprietors the donation of a lot of ground 
ou " Society Hill" for a new church. The application 
was successful. October 19, 1764, Thomas and Richard 
Penn, the proprietors of Pennsylvania, granted a lot, 
174 feet on Fourth Street by 102 on Pine Street, " to 
the congregation belonging to the Old Presbyterian 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 301 

Meeting House, on the south side of High (Market) 
Street, near the Court-House, in the city of Phila- 
delphia, to the intent that a church or meeting-house 
should be erected thereon, and a burial-yard laid out 
for the use of the said society of Presbyterians forever." 
The lot was afterwards enlarged by purchase, so that 
the church property now has a front of two hundred 
feet on Pine Street. A small frame building had pre- 
viously existed on this spot, called the Hill Meeting 
House. I^ear this building tradition says that White- 
field preached to assembled thousands from a stand 
erected for the purpose. The work of building the 
church was commenced in 1766, and the time employed 
in its erection was about two years. The cost of the 
building was about $16,000, of which about $5000 was 
raised by lottery, a method of raising funds for benev- 
olent purposes not unusual in those days. Other 
churches, the First, Second, and Fourth Presbyterian 
Churches among them, were aided in like manner. 
The dimensions of the church edifice were the same as 
at present, 80 by 60 feet. It was so far finished that it 
was opened for public worship June 12, 1768. The 
house, however, was not completed until the following 
year ; for, Ij^ovember 14, 1768, the committee of the 
First and Third Churches ordered a house which they 
owned on South Second Street to be sold to complete 
the church, " because it was not in repair to defend the 



302 PRESBYTERY 

congregation against the storms and cold of winter." 
When finished it exhibited but little of its present ap- 
pearance, and to modern eyes would not have seemed 
very sightly or attractive. But it was then regarded 
as the finest church building in the city. 

The Third Church was designed to be held in per- 
petual union with the First Church. The Rev. Samuel 
Aiken was unanimously elected pastor, !N'ovember 14, 
1768, and for about one year alternated with the pastors 
of the First Church in supplying the two congregations. 
His connection with the Church then terminated, and 
the two pastors of the First Church supplied the pulpit 
alternately for nearly two years. August 5, 1771, the 
Eev. George Duffield, of Carlisle, was chosen pastor, 
independently of the First Church and without its 
approval. In the trying times of the Revolution he 
was true and faithful to the Church and country, and, 
in connection with Bishop White, was chaplain to the 
Continental Congress. John Adams, afterward Presi- 
dent of the United States, attended his ministry during 
the sessions of the Continental Congress, and communed 
with his church. 

The Church sufifered severely during the War of the 
Revolution. When the British got possession of Phila- 
delphia, they seized the church and used it as a 
hospital. The soldiers burned the pews for fuel, 
stripped the pulpit and windows, and finally used the 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 803 

building as a stable for tbe horses of dragoons. Dr. 
Duffield was with the army of Washington during the 
memorable retreat through IN'ew Jersey, and in the 
battles at Princeton and Trenton. So obnoxious was he 
to the British forces that a prize of fifty pounds ster- 
ling was offered for his head, and at Trenton he barely 
escaped capture through the kindness of a Quaker 
friend to whom he had rendered some service. He 
died in 1790, and his remains now rest under the central 
aisle of the lecture-room. During his pastorate of nine- 
teen years he solemnized 730 marriages, and baptized 
1342 adults and children. How many communicants 
he admitted to the church is unknown. 

In 1791 the Rev. John Blair Smith, D.D., was elected 
pastor, and remained such until 1795, when he be- 
came the first President of Union College, Schenectady, 
^N". Y. After an absence of four years, during which 
the church was vacant, he was recalled to the pastorate 
in 1799. On his return he was cordially greeted, not 
only by his own congregation, but by a large portion 
of the intelligent and excellent people of the city. But 
their joy was soon turned into mourning. He died, 
August 22, 1799, within four months from his re- 
installation, of yellow fever — one of the first victims of 
that terrible pestilence. He was in the prime of his 
manhood and of his fame as a learned, able, and elo- 
quent preacher. He was Moderator of the General 



304 PRESBYTERY 

Assembly in 1798. His grave maybe seen in the yard, 
near the southwest corner of the church. 

The Rev. Philip Milledoller, D.D., was pastor of the 
Third Church from 1800 to 1805, when he was removed 
to a church in 'New York. He was afterwards Presi- 
dent of Rutgers College, 'Ne\Y Jersey. In November, 
1806, the Rev. Archibald Alexander was elected pastor. 
In a pastorate of six years he solemnized ninety mar- 
riages, baptized 291 children and adults, and admitted 
119 communicants to the church. His pulpit ministra- 
tions were unusually popular. In regard to his manner 
of preaching he was then at his highest point. The 
vivacity and freedom of his discourses, always delivered 
without the aid of any manuscript, attracted very 
general admiration. In 1812 he was elected Professor 
of Theology in the Princeton Theological Seminary, 
where he died in 1851, after thirty-nine years of useful 
labor in that department. The Rev. Ezra Stiles Eh^, 
D.D., succeeded him in 1813. At his coming a 
minority withdrew and organized the Sixth Church. 
His pastorate was peaceful and prosperous, and extended 
to June, 1835. During his ministry he solemnized 718 
marriages, baptized 1163 adults and children, and 
admitted 707 to the church. The Sunday school was 
commenced in 1814, the year of his installation, with 
six or eight scholars, in the parlor of Mr. Moss 
McMullen. The house is still standing ; its present 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 305 

number is 713 South Second Street. This was one of 
the first schools organized in our city. It is now in a 
flourishing condition, with about 500 scholars, and a 
full supply of efficient teachers. Dr. Ely left Pine 
Street to fill a Professorship in Marion College, in Mis- 
souri. He afterwards returned to this city and died a 
few years since. 

The Rev. Thomas Brainerd, D.D., succeeded Dr. 
Ely. He commenced his labors February 1, 1837, and 
was installed pastor March 5th of the same year. Dur- 
ing his pastorate of thirty years he received 1200 
communicants to the church, baptized 1017 adults and 
children, solemnized 841 marriages, and attended 1075 
funerals. Such were the fruits of an earnest work by 
an earnest man. 

Dr. Brainerd was an eloquent preacher, kind and 
fearless, faithful and tender as a man and a pastor. 
Candid and frank, but genial and gentle, he made warm 
friends wherever he went. In 1837, in the division of 
the church, he adhered to the 'New School branch, in 
which action his congregation sustained him with 
entire unanimity. He died suddenly on the night of 
August 21, 1866. His body lies near the southeast 
corner of the church, where an appropriate monument 
has been erected to his memory. 

Dr. Brainerd was succeeded by the Eev. Richard H. 
Allen, D.D., who labored acceptably and successfully 



306 PRESBYTERY 

from 1867 to 1880. The present popular and efficient 
pastor, Eev. H. 0. Gibbons, was installed October 4, 
1881. The interior of the church edifice has within the 
last three years been handsomely refitted and decorated, 
and is now one of the most comfortable audience-rooms 
in the city. 

Present Eldership. 
John C. Farr, Ezra Calhoun, 

James Frazier, P. H. Strubing, 

William Ivins, R. T. Hazzard, 

John Elliott, Charles E. Maclean. 

James Hewitt, 

FOURTH CHURCH. 

The Fourth Church was organized by the direction 
of Presbytery in June, 1799. The congregation met at 
first in a rented house at the corner of Third and Lom- 
bard streets, and the services were conducted through 
the Summer and Fall by supplies appointed by the 
Presbytery. Early in the year 1800 a call was exteuded 
to Mr. G-eorge Potts, then a licentiate of the Presby- 
tery of IsTew Castle, and he was ordained and installed 
on May 22, 1800. During the same year application 
was made to the Legislature of the State for the grant 
of a lot to be used as a burial-ground. This applica- 
tion was successful mainly through the influence of Mr. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 307 

Potts, and a lot extending from Twelfth to Thirteenth 
Street and eighty-seven feet deep was ceded to the 
congregation. 

The early ministry of Mr. Potts was eminently 
successful. A lot was purchased at the corner of Fifth 
and Gaskill streets for the erection of a house of wor- 
ship, and the corner-stone laid July 4, 1802. In this 
church the congregation continued to worship for 
nearly forty years, when they removed to their present 
location at the corner of Twelfth and Lombard streets. 
Mr. Potts was born in the County of Monaghan, Ireland, 
educated at the University of Glasgow, and licensed by 
the Presbytery of Monaghan. He came to the United 
States in 1797. His pastoral relation to the church, by 
reason of infirm health, was dissolved September 9, 
1835. He died September 23, 1838, and a tablet with 
a suitable inscription is placed in the vestibule of the 
church. 

The second pastor was the Rev. William L. McCalla, 
of whom a notice will be found in another part of this 
volume. He was installed April 20, 1836. Difficulties 
arose in the congregation, which ended in its division. 
Mr. McCalla and his friends were recognized as the 
Assembly Church, under the care of the Presbytery, 
and the Fourth Church was declared vacant. Rev. 
William Loughridge, born in the County Antrim, near 
Ballymena, Ireland, 1803, was installed pastor of the 



308 PRESBYTERY 

Church, ISTovember 17, 1840. His labors were abun- 
dant, and signally blessed. For his growing congre- 
gation, and chiefly through his efforts, a new and 
larger church was erected at the corner of Twelfth and 
Lombard streets. His pastorate was very prosperous 
and successful, and his memory is still cherished w^ith 
tender affection. He died November 11, 1846. He 
was buried in the ground adjoining the Church, from 
which his remains were removed, a few years since, to 
the Woodlands Cemetery, where there is an appropriate 
monument to his memory. 

Rev. Lewis Cheeseman, D.D., born at Princetown, N. 
Y., October 27, 1803, was installed pastor of the Church, 
October 3, 1848. He labored in Philadelphia with 
great zeal and earnestness for nearly twelve years, 
maintaining among his brethren in the ministry and 
all others who knew him a high position as a scholar, 
a theologian, and an earnest, eloquent, and successful 
defender of the " faith once delivered to the saints." 
During this period of his ministry he published several 
w^orks. His pastoral relation, through declining health, 
was dissolved October 10, 1860. His last engagement 
was as a Superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of 
Publication. He died December 21, 1861. 

Rev. Philip H. Mo wry, who was ordained and in- 
stalled pastor October 1, 1861, after two years of accept- 
able and successful labor, was led by providential cir- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 309 

cumstances to seek a change of field, and his pastoral 
relation was dissolved October 15, 1883. Dr. Mowry 
has been, for more than fifteen years, the honored and 
successful pastor of the First Church, of Chester, Pa. 

The sixth pastor was the Rev. Willard M. Rice, D.D. 
Dr. Rice was born April 30, 1817, graduated from 
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1837, was 
Tutor in that Institution three years, removed to 
Philadelphia, and after his marriage to the daughter of 
Rev. John McDowell, D.D., established a classical 
school which soon attained a high reputation. He 
was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, 
and engaged in Missionary work in connection with 
the Moyamensing Mission of the Tenth Presbyterian 
Church (now known as the Holland Memorial 
Church). He was ordained and installed pastor of 
the Moyamensing Church, and after several years 
of laborious service was released from this charge, 
and immediately commenced his work in the Fourth 
Church, over which he was installed April 10, 1864, 
laboring faithfully and successfully in this relation, 
until his resignation of it in 1874. For more than a 
quarter of a century he has been Stated Clerk of Pres- 
bytery, and for twenty years was Clerk of the Synod 
of Philadelphia. He has been actively employed in 
Church work, especially in the preparation of the 



310 PRESBYTERY 

Sabbath School Helps published by the Presbyterian 
Board of Publication. 

Pastors succeeding Dr. Eice : Rev. George H. Pool, 
installed January 17, 1875, released June 4, 1877, died 
February 3, 1881. Eev. George Benaugh, installed No- 
vember 14, 1877, released September 20, 1880; and Rev. 
James Robinson, installed February 14, 1881, released 
September 5, 1885, both of whom labored zealously in 
their pastorates. Rev. W. !N". Ritchie was installed 
June 22, 1886, and is earnestly prosecuting his work. 

Present Eldership. 
Thomas Graham, Edward Hill, 

James Gibson, John McClelland. 

George W. Clelland, 

ARCH STREET CHURCH. 

The first regular service was held in this church on 
Saturday, June 7, 1823. The first congregation was 
known as the Fifth Presbyterian Church. They 
formerly occupied a somewhat dilapidated chapel on 
Locust Street, which stood on the ground now occupied 
by Musical Fund Hall. The first pastor of the flock 
was Rev. George Cox. He was installed on the 21st of 
April, 1813. The next pastor was James K. Birch, 
who was installed July 19, 1813. He was released 
!N'ovember 5, 1816. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 311 

The present church was founded by a committee of 
the Philadelphia Presbytery on February 6, 1850. The 
committee held its first meeting in the Tabernacle 
Church on Broad Street. Two of the members of that 
committee were Eev. Drs. Boardman and Lord. On 
the first day of December Dr. Thomas H. Skinner was 
called to the pastorate. Upon the occasion of taking 
possession of the present building Dr. Skinner preached 
on the subject, " Prejudice against doctrinal preaching." 
He preached every evening that week, and on the 
seventh night took as his subject, '^ Original Sin." It 
was for this discourse that he was threatened with a 
church trial for heresy, which, however, never took 
place. The sermon created widespread attention. On 
March 5, 1828, Dr. Skinner was called to Boston, but 
on October 26 of that same year was prevailed upon to 
return to his church in Philadelphia, He was finally 
released from the charge in 1832 to accept the chair of 
Sacred Ehetoric at Andover Seminary. He died on 
February 1,1871. 

When Dr. Skinner retired the congregation numbered 
600 persons. A great contest sprang up over the 
choosing of his successor. As a result the larger part 
of the congregation seceded and formed Whitefield 
Chapel. Those that remained, ninety-two in number, 
chose as their pastor Eev. George Dufifield, of Carlisle. 
He was installed April 5, 1835, remained but a short 



312 PRESBYTERY 

time, and took charge of the First Church, Detroit, 
Mich., where he died in 1868, at the age of sixty-eight. 
He was succeeded by Eev. Thomas T. Waterbury, who 
was installed in December, 1837, and was released in 
March, 1843. The next pastor was the Eev. M. P. 
Thompson, who was installed in 1844, and released on 
February 15, 1848. He left over 350 members. The 
Fifth Presbyterian Church was then disbanded, and the 
present church formed as an Old School Church. The 
first pastor after the reorganization was Rev. Charles 
Wadsworth, of Troy, !N". Y. He was installed in 
March, 1850. The Sunday School was organized 
February 24, 1850. On Dr. Wadsworth's removal to 
San Francisco, the Eev. iST. W. Conklin was installed 
pastor of the church in 1863, and continued in this 
relation five years. The Eev. John L. Withrow filled 
the pastorate from 1868 to 1873. The term of the 
present acceptable and successful pastor, Eev. John S. 
Sands, began September 19, 1880. 

Present Eldership. 

W. H. Castle, Louis Eenshaw, 

John Heebner, Benjamin Thackara, 

James T. Magee, George M. Troutman. 
Charles P. Turner, M.D., 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 313 



SIXTH CHURCH. 



This church was formed bj the seceding portion of 
Dr. Ely's Church— the Pine Street Church. The Rev. 
William N^eill, D.D., became its pastor in 1816, and 
continued so until he was made President of Dickinson 
College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1824. The Rev. John H. 
Kennedy was installed pastor in !N"ovember, 1825, and 
sustained this relation until December, 1829. The 
Pev. Samuel G. Winchester was ordained pastor. May 
4, 1830, and remained four years. Mr. Winchester was 
succeeded by Pev. Joseph H. Jones, D.D., in 1838, who 
sustained the pastoral relation for twenty-three years, 
his efforts being crowned with a manifest blessing. 
The Pev. F. P. Harbaugh and the Pev. John P. 
Conkey were respectively in charge of the congrega- 
tion for a short time, when they sold their house of 
worship at Sixth and Spruce streets and united with 
the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Several of the 
pastors of the Sixth Church are noticed elsewhere in 
this volume, 

TABERNACLE CHURCH. 

In the year 1804, God, in his providence, disposed a 
number of persons in Philadelphia to unite in the erec- 
tion of a house of worship, to be occupied by a society 
of Christians under the independent form of church 

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314 PRESBYTERY 

government. The " Independent Tabernacle" (as the 
church was called) was situated up a court from Fourth 
Street, between High and Chestnut streets. It was 
built in the years 1805-6. Subsequently it was deemed 
expedient by a majority of the congregation to endeavor 
to effect a union with some other religious body of the 
same faith and order, even if there should be some 
unessential difference in the form of church govern- 
ment. After serious consideration of the subject, a 
way seemed to be open, by the providence of God, 
which finally led to a union with the Eeformed Dutch 
Church. 

On the 18th of October, 1819, the pew-holders and 
communicants of the church requested the Consistory 
to apply to the Classis of Philadelphia for the dismissal 
of this church and congregation to the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia. Eventually the Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia received the church and congregation under its 
care, with the name of the Seventh Presbyterian 
Church. This occurred on the 9th of November, 1819, 
and the Eev. Drs. JN'eill, Ely, and Janeway, with elders 
John McMullin and Robert Ralston, were appointed a 
committee duly to organize the church under its new 
relation. Accordingly, it was so organized as the 
Seventh Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, I^ovem- 
ber, 18, 1819, and the following persons elected as 
ruling elders and deacons : — 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 315 

Otis Amldon, William Sheepshanks, Robert Hamill, 
and William Shufflebottom — Elders, 

John P. Schott, Thomas Whittaker, William Taylor, 
Jr., and Jacob Eglee — Deacons, 

The Eev. Dr. William M. Engles was elected the 
first pastor of this church, under its organization as a 
Presbyterian Church. His election occurred June 15, 
1820, and he was ordained and installed July 6, 1820. 
The relation then instituted continued with great 
harmony and with much blessing to the church, until 
September 4, 1834, when it was dissolved by the Pres- 
bytery of Philadelphia, at the request of Dr. Engles, 
who then devoted himself to the enterprise of conduct- 
ing the Presbyterian, The Rev. Samuel D. Blythe was 
next called on September 24, 1834, to be the pastor of 
the ch^irch, and having accepted the call he was 
installed February 23, 1835. This relation continued 
till the year 1839. 

In April, 1840, the Seventh Presbyterian Church, 
previously under the pastoral care of the Rev. S. D. 
Blythe, and the Assembly Church, previously under 
the pastoral care of the Rev. W. L. McCalla, were, at 
their request, by the act of the Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia, united under the style and title of the Seventh 
Presbyterian Church. Immediately after that union 
was consummated, the Rev. Willis Lord was installed 
pastor. 



316 PRESBYTERY 

In the year 1842 the congregation sold their house of 
worship in Eanstead Court, and erected a church on 
Broad Street, above Chestnut, which was dedicated to 
the worship of God on the last day of that year. The 
j&rst of January, 1843, being the Sabbath, the church 
was regularly opened for Divine worship. 

The Rev. Dr. Lord resigned his pastoral charge of 
this church in October, 1850, and accepted a call to the 
Seventh Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. After 
a vacancy of nearly a year the congregation extended a 
call to the Eev. William Henry Ruffner, at that time 
serving as chaplain to the University of Virginia. 
This being Mr. Ruffner's first pastoral charge, he was 
ordained and installed at the same time as pastor of this 
church in the fall of 1851. This relation continued till 
the spring of 1853, when Mr. Ruffher was constrained 
to resign his charge in consequence of a serious affection 
of the throat. The Rev. E. P. Rodgers, D.D., the next 
pastor of the church, was installed on May 3, 1854, and 
continued in this relation until October, 1856. After 
a vacancy of nearly six months the Rev. James M. 
Crowell was installed into the pastoral care of this 
church. May 10, 1857, and had cbarge of it until May 
5, 1869. Dr. Crowell was succeeded by the Rev. Henry 
C. McCook, who was installed pastor in 1870 and still 
continues so to be. During Dr. McCook's pastorate 
the name " Tabernacle Church" was assumed. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 817 

The congregation, feeling the necessity of a change 
of location, on account of the encroachment of business 
houses in the region of their place of worship, pur- 
chased, in 1883, an eligible lot at Thirty-eighth and 
Chestnut streets, on which their present large and 
handsome church edifice now stands. 

Present Eldership. 

Archibald Mclntyre, Samuel S. Scott, 

T. Esmonde Harper, Rudolph M. Schick. 

Samuel W. Eeeves, 

SCOTS CHURCH. 

This congregation was planted by supplies from the 
Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania, at the request 
of a few persons in 1766. About 1767 the congregation 
purchased a farm-house, with some little land attached, 
near Fourth and Shippen (now Bainbridge) streets. 
The house was for the minister's family, as well as to 
furnish a suitable room for public worship. It was 
repaired and rebuilt so as to form a hall, which was 
used as a meeting-house till 1787, after which it was 
used as an auction-room, and the adjacent ground as a 
place of burial. This burial-ground at Fourth and 
Bainbridge streets, and which contains the tombstone 
of Rev. David Telfair, who died in 1789, is still in pos- 
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318 PRESBYTERY 

with the Second U. P. Church. Rev. Mr. Telfair, who 
had come from Scotland in 1765, supplied the congre- 
gation for about two years. 

Up to April, 1822, the Scots Presbyterian Church 
had been in connection with the Associate Reformed 
Presbyterian Church of America, but about that time 
terminated the connection and was transferred to the 
Greneral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 
America, thus becoming the Eighth Presbyterian 
Church in the city. John Adams, signer of the De- 
claration of Independence and President of the United 
States, relates in his diary that he attended the preach- 
ing of the Scots Presbyterian Church, and it is an in- 
teresting historical fact that during his residence in 
Philadelphia, Louis Philippe, King of France, lived in 
the parsonage adjoining. 

After the transfer of the church to the Presbyterian 
connection, the Rev. James Arbuckle, who had been 
installed in August, 1822, remained pastor until 1824. 
He was succeeded in the pastorate by Rev. W. L. 
McCalla, 1824-35; Rev. Alexander Macklin, D.D., 
1835-59; Rev. J^athanael L. Conklin, 1861, for one 
year and six months ; and Rev. D. A. Cunningham 
from Jan. 1864, for the same length of time. 

From May, 1866, until 1884 the old church on Spruce 
Street was practically closed. In 1880, Rev. J. C. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 319 

Thompson was invited to take charge of the "Faith 
Mission," at Castle Avenue, near Broad Street. 

The congregation grew steadily until the Spring of 
1885, when the one hundred and fifteen church mem- 
bers that had joined the mission petitioned the Presby- 
tery of Philadelphia to be organized into a separate 
church, under the name of the South Broad Street 
Presbyterian Church. This petition, accompanied by 
the consent and with the hearty cooperation of the 
elders of the Tenth Presbyterian Church, which, up to 
this time, had assisted in the support of the mission, 
was granted by the Presbytery. 

The pastor of the church thus established (Rev. J. 
C. Thompson, who was installed in Feb. 1883), con- 
vinced of the necessity of better church accommoda- 
tion, addressed a communication to the trustees of the 
Scots Presbyterian Church, setting forth what would 
seem to be the great advantages that would result from 
a union of the two churches in one organization. This 
was done, and by a formal resolution the members of 
the South Broad Street Church dropped their organiza- 
tion, surrendered their charter and became the legal 
and ecclesiastical successor of the Scots Presbyterian 
Church, thus merging the new church into the old and 
perpetuating a name which had become identified with 
the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia by the asso- 
ciation of nearly a century and a quarter. 



320 PRESBYTERY 

The new and beautiful church edifice erected bj the 
congregation was dedicated to the worship of God on 
Sabbath, April 15, 1888, and the congregation is pros- 
perous. 

Present Eldership. 

Henry McKeen, W. M. Woodley, 

Wm. Lamb, Lucius Claville, 

Thos. Gamon, Andrew Brown. 

NINTH CHURCH. 

In the month of May, 1822, a union was effected in 
Philadelphia between the Presbyterian Church of the 
United States and the Associated Reformed Church. 
One of the Churches of the latter body was worshiping 
at that time in a small Church in Thirteenth Street, 
north of Market Street. The pastor being the Rev. 
Thomas G. Maclnnis, and having gone into the union, 
a charter was procured in 1823 for the Church under 
the name of the Xinth Presbyterian Church. 

After the death of Mr. Maclnnis the pulpit remained 
vacant for a considerable time, the Church being 
dependent on occasional supplies, but in the month of 
May, 1825, the Rev. John Chambers occupied the 
pulpit. On his settlement in the Church he did not 
see his way to assent to the Westminster Confession of 
Faith, and consequently he was not ordained by the 
Presbytery of Philadelphia. Li December of the same 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 321 

year he was ordained to the ministry by an Association 
in iS^ew Haven, and returning he continued to preach 
as an Independent Presbyterian Minister. 

In 1830 it became obvious that a clause in the will 
of the founder of the Church edifice did not warrant 
the property to be used as it had been by the congre- 
gation, and accordingly a large number of the people 
with their minister left the edifice and erected a much 
larger building at Sansom and Broad streets. Those 
who remained held on to the charter which they had 
procured, and in 1832 they called the Rev. W. J. Gib- 
son, who accepted their call, and he was installed as 
pastor in February of that year. Mr. Gibson was 
eminent for his great theological attainments and for 
his power as a preacher, and under his ministry the 
Church was greatly edified. 

At the time of the union of the Associated Reformed 
Body with the American Presbyterian Church in 1822, 
there were several persons who were not satisfied with 
the union. They disliked the idea of their parent 
Communion, to which they were greatly attached, being 
extinguished. Their numbers were increased by the 
settlement in the city of persons of kindred views from 
Western Pennsylvania, and they were ministered to by 
brethren of their own connection, and in process of time 
they were organized into a church. After worshiping 
in diflferent places, they became satisfied that a fair 



322 PRESBYTERY 

interpretation of the will of Mrs. Anne Duncan, who 
had founded the church building in Thirteenth Street, 
would entitle them to claim and use it as a house of 
worship of their own order, and on an application to a 
legal court for a settlement of the question it soon be- 
came apparent that the right was on their side. The 
matter at issue was however settled in a manner highly 
creditable to both of the parties, and the congregation 
that had been worshiping in the building retired, 
carrying with them their charter and the name that 
they had assumed as the [N'inth Presbyterian Church. 

Their pastor, Mr. Gibson; had removed from the 
congregation in the Spring of 1838, and being without 
a church edifice they assembled for worship in the 
Assembly Building at Tenth and Chestnut streets, 
until they had their new and large church finished at 
the corner of Sansom and Sixteenth streets. Sixteenth 
Street being at that time, and for several years after- 
wards, known as Schuylkill Seventh Street. 

On the retirement of the Rev. Mr. Gibson in the 
Spring of 1838, the Rev. Archibald Tudehope was 
engaged to preach for a time and he was soon after 
settled as the pastor of the church. 

Before the completion of the new church building a 
number of the members with others who united with 
them were organized by the Presbytery of Philadelphia 
in a separate churcfi, and thus in December, 1840, the 



OF PUILADELPHIA. 323 

Union Church was formed. On the 10th day of January, 
1841, the new building that the members of the Mnth 
Church Congregation had with great zeal and with un- 
wonted liberality and energy erected, was opened for 
divine service by the Eev. A. Tudehope. His sermon 
was founded on 'Neh. x. 39 : " We will not forsake the 
house of our God." 

Mr. Tudehope continued in the pastorate until 1849, 
and on his resignation the congregation had their at- 
tention directed to the Eev. William Blackwood, the 
pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church, ITewcastle-on- 
Tyne, England. A correspondence was opened with 
him which resulted in his removal to Philadelphia 
and his settlement as the pastor of the church. His 
first sermon was preached from the text, John i. 12, 
on April 14, 1850, and since that time Dr. Blackwood 
has held with great acceptance and success the pas- 
torate of the church, being still actively engaged in 
all the work of the ministry. 

Present Eldership. 
James F. Gay ley, M.D., John Baird, 
Hugh H. English, James Burns. 

Oliver Sproule, 



324 PRESBYTERY 



TENTH CHURCH. 



The plan of the Tenth Presbyterian Church origi- 
nated in a consultation of the following six gentlemen : 
John Stille, William Brown, Solomon Allen, James 
Kerr, GTeorge Ralston, and Furman Leaming, at the 
residence of the last named, March 25, 1828. The 
corner-stone was laid by Ashbel G-reen, D.D., LL.D., 
on Auo-ust 8, 1828. The church was oro;anized in the 
session room of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, March 

16, 1829, by the ordination and installation of John 
Stille, James Kerr, and Furman Leaming as ruling 
elders ; and it was received under the care of the Pres- 
bytery of Philadelphia as " The Tenth Presbyterian 
Church, on Walnut Street, corner of Twelfth," May 11, 
1829. 

The first service was held in the session room. May 
31, 1829, when Derrick C. Lansing, D.D., preached. 

The church itself was completed December 7, 1829, 
and the main audience-room opened for public worship 
the next Sabbath. The following has been the succes- 
sion of pastors : — 

Thomas McAuley, D.D., LL.D., installed December 

17, 1829. 

Henry A. Boardman, D.D., ordained and installed 
:N"ovember 8, 1833. 

John De Witt, D.D., installed October 12, 1876. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 325 

Eev. Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr., installed May 14, 
1883, and still continuing in this relation. 

Associate Pastors : — 

Rev. Louis E. Fox, elected December 11, 1871. 

J. Henry Sharpe, D.D., elected E"ovember 9, 1874. 

Dr. Breed, in his " Discourse upon the History of the 
West Spruce Street Presbyterian Church," in referring 
to the pastorate of Dr. Boardnaan, which extended 
from 1833 to 1876, says it was " a pastorate which, for 
ability and true manly dignity in the incumbent, for 
fidelity to sound doctrine, for richness of pulpit instruc- 
tion, for purity and felicity of literary style, for per- 
suasive eloquence, and for reach of healthful influence, 
left nothing to be desired, whether on the part of the 
church at large or of the congregation to which he 
directly ministered." (See " West Spruce Street 
Church.") 

This church has always been a source of great power 
for good in the community, and is making progress 
under the ministrations of its able and active pastor. 
The increase of its benevolent contributions over those 
of last year was $2731.00. 

Present Eldership. 
Wm. L. Dubois, Samuel E. Sharp. 



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THE CHURCH OF THE ATONEMENT. 

This church was the result of the earnest efforts of 
the Evangelical Society of Philadelphia in the cause of 
church extension. In the prosecution of their object they 
erected a building at the corner of Catharine and Sixth 
streets, known as the Blue Frame or Mission House. 

On December 17, 1818, the congregation was organ- 
ized as the First Presbyterian Church of Moyamensing. 
A new building was completed in 1829, on Cedar Street 
below Twelfth Street. On April 30, 1830, the Rev. 
Thomas Eustace became their first pastor, the church 
having been reorganized as the Twelfth Presbyterian 
Church. 

On account of the schism of 1837, the congregation 
in 1841 was organized as the Cedar Street Presbyterian 
Church, with the Rev. William Ramsey as pastor, who 
remained twenty years and died in the pastorate. 
Several brief pastorates followed, as the Rev. Henry A. 
Smith, Rev. Richard Mallery, Rev. J. Gordon Mitchell. 
In December, 1874, the Rev. Edward B. Bruen became 
pastor. Another house of worship was dedicated 
December 31, 1882, on Wharton Street above Broad 
Street, the name being changed to The Presbyterian 
Church of the Atonement. 

Present Eldership. 
Max Weiss, J. Frank Brinkerhoff, 

Robert Ferguson, Walter Reynolds. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 327 



UNION CHURCH. 



This church was organized hy a committee appointed 
by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, December 29, 1840. 
This committee, which consisted of the Rev. Dr. C. C. 
Cuyler, the Rev. Dr. H. A. Boardman, and Mr. James 
Kerr, elder, met in Carpenter's Hall, corner of Thir- 
teenth and Race streets, on the evening of that day, and 
sixty-three persons presented certificates from the 
several churches with which they had been respectively 
connected, and were duly received. Mr. John Scott, 
and Mr. lN"eal McCauley, who had been elders in the 
Ninth Presbyterian Church of the city, were unani- 
mously elected elders and duly installed in office. 

The Rev. William J. Gibson was installed pastor of 
the church July 12, 1841. Mr. Gibson was succeeded 
by the Rev. James W. Stewart, who was installed 
pastor October 13, 1842, and continued so until his 
death in 1849. The Rev. William L. McCalla filled 
the pastorate from April, 1850, until May 3, 1854. 
The Rev. David Magill was pastor from January 13, 
1857, until July 6, 1859. The Rev. Robert Gamble 
was installed pastor February 29, 1860. The Rev. 
John B. McCorkell was installed pastor May 10, 1865, 
and resigned the relation in September, 1884. The 
pulpit was supplied by the Rev. Alfred Nevin, D.D., 
for a few months, at the expiration of which the Rev. 



328 PRESBYTERY 

Robert Gamble was recalled to the pastorate, and still 
contiDiies in this relation, blessed in his labors. 

The lot on which the present building stands was 
purchased from the Salem Methodist Congregation, and 
the comparatively small church which then stood on it 
w^as succeeded by the present large, convenient, and 
comfortable edifice during the pastorate of the Rev. 
Mr. McCorkell. 

Present Eldership. 
Thompson Irvin, John Hamilton. 

THE CLINTON ST. IMMANUEL CHURCH. 

This Church originated as the " First Congregational 
Church of Philadelphia," under the pastoral care of the 
Rev. John Todd, D.D. Its coroer-stone was laid Aug. 
18, 1836, and the building, located at Tenth and Clinton 
streets, was formally dedicated to God, Nov. 11, 1837. 
The formal organization of the Church had taken place 
June 7, 1836. Dr. Todd was elected pastor June 11th, 
and installed I^ov. 11th of the same year. 

The existence of the Clinton St. Presbyterian Church 
dates from April 28, 1842, when twenty-six communi- 
cants from the First Presbyterian Church were set apart 
by the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia. 

The Rev. Joel Parker was elected pastor of the new 
church May 2, 1842, on the Monday following its 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 329 

organization, and was installed May 13th. He resigned 
after ten years of successful labor in February, 1852. 

The Rev. Dr. Henry Darling was next installed as 
pastor, April 20, 1853, and continued in this relation 
until July, 1861, when ill-health compelled his resig- 
nation. 

The Rev. Dr. Daniel March was installed pastor Feb. 
28, 1862, and continued with the Church until the ill- 
health of Mrs. March compelled his resignation in E'ov. 
1872. 

The Rev. Henry L. Bunstein was ordained to the 
gospel ministry and installed pastor of the Church Feb. 
25, 1873, but resigned in E'ov. 1876. 

It was at the precise point which has now been 
reached in the life of Clinton Street Church, that it 
became immediately connected with the Immanuel 
Church, and within a short time organically united 
with it. The Church Records show that through the 
thirty-four years that had elapsed, more than $350,000 
were given by its members to the Lord's work. A 
Mission School had been built and supported, and the 
missionary spirit was sedulously cherished. The fact 
that seventeen men went into the ministry and mission 
field from its membership, may serve to confirm this 
latter statement. 

This "Immanuel" Church with which it has now 
become united was itself formed from two other 
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830 PRESBYTERY 

churches — the "Western Presbyterian" and the "Third 
Reformed (Dutch) Church," which took place under 
the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. Charles Wadsworth in 
1873. This united body then was given the name 
"Immanuel Presbyterian Church" by the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia, Central, within whose bounds it was 
situated. One of the delegates, however, of this new 
organization refused to submit to the new arrangement, 
and long litigation in the civil courts ensued, which 
resulted in the decision that this Church could not hold 
the church property of the Third Reformed Church, 
and the Church w^as sold. 

At this juncture the Immanuel Church, being left 
thus without a building for worship, was invited to 
meet with the Clinton Street Church, which had just 
been left without a pastor. This invitation was 
accepted. In the course of a few weeks it was voted 
that a formal union of these two churches be made, but 
the fact of their being in different Presbyteries caused 
such delay that the union was not formally consum- 
mated until ISTovember 4, 1878. 

This new enterprise was entitled the " Clinton Street 
Immanuel Presbyterian Church," and Dr. Wadsworth 
was finally installed as its pastor March 25, 1879. In 
its service he died April 1, 1882, after a brief illness. 

On the Sunday following the funeral of Dr. Wads- 
worth the pulpit was occupied by the Rev. J. P. Dripps, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 331 

D.D., upon invitation by the Session. A congregational 
meeting was soon held, and Dr. Dripps was elected 
pastor, and was duly installed June 7, 1882. This 
pastorate continued until July 1, 1886, when he 
resigned. 

In April, 1887, Mr. Herman C. Fox, a theological 
student in the Senior Class of Princeton Seminary, was 
invited to preach, which invitation he accepted. He 
was again invited in May to supply the pulpit, and did 
so, when, on June 23, 1887, a congregational meeting 
was held, and Mr. Fox was unanimously elected pastor. 
He was ordained and installed in this relation October 
13, 1887, and is much prospered in his labors. 

Present Eldership. 
Henry L. Fox, John Moore, 

SOUTH CHURCH, 

The establishment of this church, first known as The 
South Presbyterian Chiii^ch of Southwark^ was under 
Providence the result of the labors of the Rev. Griffith 
Owen. 

Mr. Owen having labored successfully as a Missionary 
for a time in Southwark, on application to the Phila- 
delphia Presbytery, the Rev. Joseph H. Jones, D.D., 
Rev. Thomas L. Janeway, and the Rev. J. W. Dale, 
Ministers, and Messrs "William S. Boyd and George 



332 PRESBYTERY 

Yan Gelder, elders, were appointed at a meeting 
E'ovember 19, 1848, to organize a church if the way be 
clear. The Committee met February 23, 1849, in the 
lecture-room of the church, Fourth Street below G-er- 
man Street, when fifteen persons presented certificates 
of church membership and were approved ; Charles 
Brigham and David Owen were elected ruling elders, 
and were ordained on the following Sabbath. 

The corner-stone of the church building was laid 
September 17, 1849. A building committee, who were 
instructed to proceed to the construction of the church, 
were appointed as follows: William Clark, R. J. 
Mercer, Gideon R-. Bancroft, Philip F. Snyder, and 
Thomas A. Barlow. The first meeting in the new 
building was held January 19, 1851. On March 26, 
1851, Rev. Griffith Owen was unanimously elected 
pastor of the church. He was shortly after installed, 
and remained pastor until October, 1855. In January, 
1874, Rev. and Mrs. R. M. Patterson permanently re- 
lieved the church from future payment of the ground- 
rent upon the property, the principal amounting to 
over $4000. 

Pastors. 

Rev. Griffith Owen, called March 26, 1851. 

Rev. Archibald P. Cobb, called E"ovember 12, 1855, 
installed December 23, 1855. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 333 

Rev. John Moore, called !N'ovember 14, 1863, in- 
stalled December 20, 1863. 

Rev. Robert M. Patterson, D.D., called February 27, 
1867, installed September 10, 1867. 

Rev. William M. Baker, called March 16, 1881, in- 
stalled November 3, 1881. 

Rev. William L. Ledwith, called July, 1883, in- 
stalled, and still laboring in the field with success. 
Present Eldership. 

David Jones, J. Parsons Smith, 

John Maxwell, John Hogg, 

Peter L. Krider, W. H. Rogers. 

-WEST SPRUCE STREET CHURCH. 

On the 20th of January, 1852, a number of gentle- 
men connected with the Tenth Presbyterian Church, 
met by invitation of the pastor, the Rev. Henry A. 
Boardman, D.D., at his house. 

The object of the meeting was to confer upon the 
duty of erecting an additional Presbyterian Church in 
the city of Philadelphia. The Tenth Church itself was 
the result of a peaceful colonization in 1829. Origi- 
nating in the benevolence, foresight, and enterprise of 
only six persons, it had become a large and prosperous 
congregation, numbering more than five hundred com- 
municants. For many years its pews had been filled, 



334 PRESBYTERY 

SO that it had become difficult for strangers any longer 
to obtain sittings. It numbered nearly seven hundred 
scholars and teachers in its Sunday Schools, it was free 
from discord and from debt, it had been blessed for a 
much longer period than is granted to most churches 
with the ministrations of the same beloved pastor, and 
it was felt to be only a fitting expression of gratitude 
to the Author of all mercies that the congregation thus 
favored should in its turn build another church, and 
send forth a colony to occupy it. 

For the purpose of carrying these views into effect 
a committee was appointed, consisting of the following 
gentlemen, namely, James B. Ross, Singleton A. 
Mercer, Morris Patterson, James Murphy, Thomas 
Hoge, and James Imbrie. In June, 1852, the lot was 
secured, at the corner of Seventeenth and Spruce streets, 
on which the church edifice now stands. 

On the 29th of March, 1854, a charter was obtained 
in which the following gentlemen were named as a 
Board of Trustees to act until May, 1856, viz : Moses 
Johnson, Morris Patterson, Singleton A. Mercer, John 
R. Yodges, James B. Ross, James Murphy, William 
Brown, William Goodrich, Theodore Cuyler, James 
Imbrie, Jr., Maurice A. Wurts, J. Engle i^egus, John 
Mc Arthur, Jr., John S. Hart, and Anthony J. 01m- 
stead. 

The corner-stone of the new edifice was laid April 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 335 

26, 1855, by the Rev. Dr, Board man, assisted by several 
other clergymen of various denominations. 

The contractor was Mr. John McArthur, and the 
architect Mr. John McArthur, Jr. ; the whole building 
was enclosed and roofed in before the close of 1855. 

The lecture-room being nearly finished, the Trustees 
deemed it advisable to commence public worship 
without waiting for the completion of the main build- 
ing. The charter provides that the pastor shall be 
chosen by the persons whose names are subscribed to 
the application for the act of incorporation. A meeting 
of said subscribers was held for this purpose February 
14, 1856, at which meeting it Avas resolved unanimously 
to call the Rev. William P. Breed, of Steuben ville, 
Ohio. 

At a meeting held in the lecture-room of the Tenth 
Presbyterian Church, April 3, 1856, Dr. Boardman 
presiding, it was announced that the Presbj^tery had 
appointed the following committee to organize the 
Church, viz.: Dr. Engles, Rev. Mr. Shields, Paul T. 
Jones, James Dixon, and Dr. Boardman. At this 
meeting James Imbrie, Jr., John S. Hart, and Morris 
Patterson were unanimously elected ruling elders, and 
John McArthur, Jr., deacon ; the Rev. William P. 
Breed was also unanimously chosen pastor. 

The lecture-room was opened for worship on Sabbath, 
May 18, 1856. A Sabbath School was organized in 



336 PRESBYTERY 

June, 1856. The installation of the pastor-elect took 
place June 4th. Dr. Breed, because of declining health, 
resigned the charge in 1887, after a most happy and 
successful pastorate, and was made Pastor Etneritus, 

Present Eldership. 
John D. McCord, James Speer, 

George Junkin, Albert Gr. Heyl. 

Frank K Hippie, 

WESTMINSTER CHURCH. 

Westminster Church was organized by a Committee 
of the Presbytery of Philadelphia on January 20, 1853. 
In the month of March, 1852, the hall of the Franklin 
Hose Company on Broad Street was fitted up as a 
Mission Station by Mr. John Patterson, and with the 
concurrence and approval of the Church Extension 
Committee, mission work was prosecuted in the dis- 
trict. On the second Sabbath of May of the same year 
the Hall was opened for public worship, the Rev. Mr. 
Cheeseman and Rev. Wm. Blackwood, officiating. 

On the third Sabbath Mr. Robert Watts, a graduate 
of Princeton Seminary, at the call, and by the appoint- 
ment of the Church Extension Committee, entered 
upon his labors as Missionary in the place. The enter- 
prise was crowned with such signal success, that at the 
meeting of the Presbytery in January, 1853, "the 
stated worshippers" collected at the station presented a 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 337 

memorial signed by 105 persons praying Presbytery to 
take order to have them organized into a church. 

Accordingly, on January 20, 1853, the Committee 
appointed by Presbytery met, the Rev. Wm. Black- 
wood presiding, and the organization was effected. 

On the 17th of March, following, a unanimous call 
was made out by the congregation for Eev. Robert 
Watts, which being accepted, he was duly ordained 
and installed as the regular pastor of the congregation. 

The congregation continued to worship in the hall 
of the Franklin Hose House until the erection of the 
present imposing structure on Broad and Fitzwater 
streets. The lecture-room of the new church was 
openecj. on the second Sabbath of June, 1858. The 
congregation at this time numbered 277 members. 

Dr. Watts continued to labor with great energy and 
success until 1863, when he resigned, and returned to 
his native land. He was settled for a short time as 
pastor of a church in the city of Dublin, and was sub- 
sequently called in 1866 by the General Assembly to 
the Chair of Systematic Theology in Belfast College, a 
position which he still holds. 

For almost a year the Westminster pulpit was sup- 
plied by the Rev. Dr. Plumer, who also acted as Mode- 
rator of Session. 

On June 14, 1864, a call was extended to the Rev. 
Dr. Irvine, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He con- 
tinued to act as Stated Supply until the close of 1865, 



338 PRESBYTERY 

when he returned to the Canadian Church, and was 
settled as Pastor of Knox Church in Montreal. He 
subsequently removed to Augusta, Georgia, where he 
died recently. 

After an ineffectual attempt to secure the Rev. Dr. 
"Watts, of Dublin, on the 25th of September, 1867, a 
call was made out for the Rev. B. L. Agnew, now 
pastor of the Bethlehem Church. Dr. Agnew labored 
with great energy and success for nearly three years, 
and in May, 1870, resigned the charge to accept of a 
call to the ]^orth Church of this city. 

On October 12, 1870, a call was made out for the 
Rev. Robert Irvine, D.D., which he declined. 

On January 25, 1871, another call was made out for 
the Rev. Archibald McCuUagh. This was also declined. 
On September 20, 1871, a call was made out for the 
Rev. W. G. Hillman. Mr. Hillman's ministry lasted a 
little over two years, and on February 16, 1874, he re- 
signed the charge of the congregation. 

He was succeeded by the Rev. David Winters, of 
Patterson, ^. J., now of Williamsport, Pa. Mr. 
Winters was called on April 29, 1874. Daring his 
pastorate of nearly eight years the Church made 
marked progress. A rich harvest was gathered among 
the young who had grown up. 

The total membership was 575, and there were 453 
in the Sabbath School and Bible Classes. 

The labors connected with a widely-scattered con- 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 339 

gregation proving too heavy for his strength, Mr. 
Winters resigned the charge on ISTovember. 23, 1881, 
and removed to Olean, N. Y. 

He was succeeded by the Rev. W. IST. Eichie, of New 
York, who was called on February 22, 1882. His 
pastorate lasted nearly three j^ears, and he resigned 
January 20, 1885. The membership reached the high- 
water mark during Mr. Richie's ministry, as many as 
649 communicants being reported by him in 1884. 

The present pastor is the Rev. John Kirkpatrick, 
formerly of l^ew York, and still more recently pastor 
of Cooke's Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mr. 
Kirkpatrick was called on December 16, 1885, and 
installed on January 25, 1886. Under his ministry the 
Church has enjoyed a good degree of harmony thus far. 
Its membership, which had fallen off considerably from 
various causes, is on the increase, and the Church is 
rapidly resuming its former strength numerically, 
while financially its position is stronger than it has 
ever been. Its growth, if not so rapid, is more sub- 
stantial. Strange as it may seem, Mr. Kirkpatrick 
studied theology in Belfast under Dr. Watts, the first 
pastor of the Church where he now succeeds him, and 
this is the second time he occupies a pulpit which had 
been previously filled by the late Dr. Robert Irvine, of 
Augusta, Dr. Irvine having been pastor of Cooke's 
Church, Toronto, in 1852-4. Westminster Church 
occupies a wide and important field. It has had a 



340 



PRESBYTERY 



succession of excellent pastors and a grand history. 
We anticipate for her a career of even greater glory 
than she has ever witnessed in the past. 

The thirty-fifth anniversary of the Church and the 
second of the present pastorate was celebrated with the 
opening of the Centennial year, under circumstances 
which give ground for much encouragement to both 
pastor and people. 

Elders. 

The following persons have been Elders in this 
Church: — 



1853. 
John Patterson, 
Joseph Steele, 
Andrew Little. 

1857. 

Major Rosebo rough, 
James Andrews. 

1868. 
John T. Halloway, 
Jared Craig, 
Alex. Patton, 
James Moore, 
James Baird. 

Those marked * constitute the present session, with Rev. J. Kirk- 
patrick, the pastor, as Moderator. 



1876. 
*Thos. Brangan, 
Henry Greenfield, 
^Robert Wilson, 
*Henry Boyd. 

1884. 
*Matthew Johnson, 
*Wm. M. Moore, 
Joseph Martin, 
John White, 
Alex. R. Gunn, 
*Adam Tait. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 341 



MARINERS' CHURCH. 



This church originated in the earliest stage of that 
great Christian movement to give the Gospel to seamen 
which began about 1818, and soon made its influence 
felt in all the ports of Christendom. This was the 
oldest mission for seamen in America except that of 
the " Port Society" in ^N'ew York. Mr. Joseph East- 
burn, a respected mechanic, of very limited education, 
of most remarkable piety, faith, and zeal, commenced 
preaching to seamen in his 72d year, in a sail-loft near 
the foot of Market Street, the third Sabbath of October 
(18th), 1819. The work was eminently blessed and 
very successful in the sail-loft for three years, when the 
congregation entered their own new church on Water 
Street above Walnut, on the third Sabbath of October, 
1824. On the second Sabbath of June, 1830, the 
Mission was organized as an independent church, 
chiefly under Presbyterian influences. Dr. Ashbel Green 
taking a leading part. April 11, 1854, the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia organized it as a regular Presbyterian 
Church. Rev. J. B. Ripley then became its pastor. 
William Brobston, T. H. Elliott, William Smullen, and 
John H. Cassidy, ruling elders. 

As such it has continued to this day, under the care 
of Presbytery of Philadelphia. The church edifice 
in Water Street was sold in 1866, and the congregation 



342 PRESBYTERY 

entered their present church corner of Front and Union 
streets I^ovember, 1868. 

Ministers. 

Joseph Eastburn, 1819 to 1828. 

Alfred H. Dashiel, pastor, 1827 to 1836. 

Theodore Elliott, 1836 to 1837. 

Solomon F. Holliday, 1838 to . 

Orson Douglass, pastor, 1838 to 1852. 

Charles Eockwell, 1852 to 1853. 

J. B. Eipley, pastor, 1854 to 1862. 

Charles H. Ewing, pastor, 1862 to 1868. 

Henry F. Lee, pastor-elect, 1868 to 1869. 

D. H. Emerson, D.D., pastor, 1869 to 1872. 

A. Vincent Group, pastor, 1872 to 1879. 

I. V. W. Schenck, pastor, 1880 to 1883. 

Henry F. Lee, pastor, 1884, and now, with much 
success. 

The church has had dark days, but has been in God's 
hands the means of salvation to many hundreds. It 
now has a reading-room and library, which is open all 
the days of the week from 9 A.M. to 10 P.M. Its 
work is now very extensive and diversified, and 
hundreds of souls in the past three years have been 
brought to Christ who are on their way to Heaven. 

Present Eldership. 

George S. Pickell. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 343 



BETHANY CHURCH. 



On the second Sabbath of February (Feb. 14th), 1858, 
a Sabbath School was opened in the two second-story 
rooms of the house 2135 South Street, with twenty- 
seven scholars and two teachers. The rooms, halls, 
and stairways being soon crowded with scholars, the 
erection of a tent was resolved upon, and on the 18th 
of July, 1858, a tent, erected on the north side of South 
Street, west of Twenty-first Street, was opened for 
religious services, and a sermon was preached in the 
morning by Rev. Dr. Challen. So great was the suc- 
cess of the work during the Summer months, that a 
portion of the lot on which the tent was pitched was 
purchased, and on the 18th of October, the corner-stone 
for a chapel was laid with appropriate services. 

During the Winter, and while the chapel was being 
built, the School met, first, in the depot of the pas- 
senger railway, and afterwards in the public school- 
house on Twenty-third Street. On the 27th of Jan., 
1859, the Bethany Chiapel was dedicated, with appro- 
priate services, and on the following Sabbath the Sab- 
bath School met in the new house, with two hundred 
and seventy-four scholars and seventeen teachers. Jan. 
4, 1862, the Eev. Mr. Blauvelt commenced his labors 
as a missionary in connection with the enterprise, re- 



344 PRESBYTERY 

signing after a year, that he might go as a missionary 
to a foreign field. 

Eev. S. T. Lowrie, D.D., was called to labor in the 
chapel, commenced active labors Aug. 19, 1865. On 
the 25th of Sept., the same year, a Presbyterian Church 
was organized, under the care of the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. Lowrie was installed pastor 
l^ov. 11th. 

The corner-stone of a new and larger building was 
laid, on the lot at the southeast corner of Twenty-second 
and Shippen (now Bainbridge) Streets, and on Thursday, 
Feb. 13, 1870, the new chapel was dedicated. Dr. 
Lowrie, in 1869, resigned, that he might accept a call 
to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Abing- 
don, Pa. Rev. Dr. J. R. Miller became pastor in Jan. 
1870, and resigned in 1878 to accept a call to a church 
at Rock Island, 111. Rev. James B. Dunn, D.D., com- 
menced his ministrations at Bethany as pastor on the 
first Sabbath in October, 1879. After his resignation, 
the Rev. Dr. A. T. Pierson was elected, and was in- 
stalled 'Nov. 25, 1883. Under Dr. Pierson's able and 
faithful ministry the church continues to prosper, as it 
did also under that of his excellent predecessors. The 
congregation is very large, the Sabbath School immense, 
and at a recent meeting of the people the church was 
entirely freed from debt. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 345 

Present Eldership. 

, John Wanamaker, Robt. S. Murphy, 

James H. Coyle, Wm. Arthur, Jr., 

Robt. A. Brown, Thos. Francis, 

Chas. Horman, John Patterson, 

Samuel M. Clements, Thos. Haig, 

Wm. Boyd, ^ Geo. Goodfellow, 

Edwin Adams, J. W. Hunter. 
John E. Codman, 

WHARTON STREET CHURCH. 

Mrs. Mary Cornell, a member of the First Presby- 
terian Church of the city of Philadelphia, at her death 
in the year (A.D.) 1861, after several bequests to her 
relatives, left her residuary estate in trust to William 
Purves and Ambrose White, elders in the aforesaid 
church, directing them to apply the proceeds of it, "to 
the purchase of a building and lot, or of a lot and the 
erection of a suitable building for a Mission Sabbath 
School connected with the First Church." .... 
" My intention and wdsh being that the said Mission 
School may form the nucleus of a Presbyterian Church 
now designated in common parlance as the 'New 
School." (Extract from will.) In accordance with 
these provisions and directions, a lot was purchased 
at the corner of Ninth and Wharton streets, and an 

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346 PRESBYTERY 

appropriate building was built and completed early 
in the Spring of 1864. 

The Mission School, which had been conducted in a 
hired room in Mcllvain Street for several years, was 
removed to the basement of the new building in the 
winter of 1863-1864. 

On the first day of May, 1864, the building was 
opened and formally dedicated. A sermon was preached 
by the Rev. Albert Barnes from Psalms 65 : 4, and the 
dedicatory prayer offered by the Rev. Thomas Brainerd, 
D.D., the other services being conducted by the Rev. 
Daniel .March, D.D., and the Rev. J. Garland Hamner. 

The ministerial charge of the enterprise was com- 
mitted to the Rev. J. Garland Hamner of the Presby- 
tery of Wilmington, and public service "was held twice 
on each Lord's Day throughout the Summer months. 

At a meeting of the Fourth Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia, held October 13, 1864, a petition signed by forty- 
one communicants was presented requesting Presbytery 
to organize them into a church to be known as "The 
Wharton Street Presbyterian Church." On the 17th of 
October, 1864, the Committee appointed by Presbytery 
met the petitioners and organized them into " The 
Wharton Street Presbyterian Church." Marmaduke 
L. Burr was elected and installed elder. The first 
communion was held on the afternoon of the Lord's 
Day, October 23, 1864. Upon which occasion The 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 347 

First Presbyterian as a body, omitting their own 
service, carae with their pastor, Rev. Albert Barnes, 
and sat with the new-born church. In the vestibule of 
the church the congregation have erected a marble 
tablet bearing the following inscription : — 

" With gratitude to God The Wharton Street Pres- 
b^^terian Church erect this tablet to the memory of 

Mrs. Mary Cornell, a member of the First Presby- 
terian Church, who departed this life March 24, 1860, 
and by her last will gave us this beautiful Temple in 
which to worship God." 

During the past twenty-four years' services have been 
conducted regularly in the church by the following 
pastors who have served The Wharton Street Presby- 
terian Church. 

Rev. J. Garland Hamner from 1864-1869. 

Rev. J. Henry Sharpe, from 1869-1875. 

Rev. A. W. Williams, from 1875-1885. 

And the Rev. Francis Edward Smiley, who was 
ordained to the ministry and installed pastor May 80, 
1886. 

Present Eldership. 
Stephen Ayres, John Gilmore, 

John Bollinger, 



348 PRESBYTERY 

THE GREENWICH STREET CHURCH. 

On the 6th of April, 1862, a few of the members of 
the Third Presbyterian Church, Rev. Thomas Brainerd, 
D.D., pastor, organized a Sabbath School on Reed 
Street east of Second Street. The school occupied the 
second story of the " Shiffler Hose House." Mr. 
Randolph Sailer was the Superintendent. The enter- 
prise was sustained by the Missionary Society of the 
Third Church, and it was named " The Brainerd Mis- 
sion." The attendance gradually increased until the 
room became too small to accommodate the large num- 
bers seeking admission. In the Spring of 1865 the 
" Pearson lot" on Greenwich Street east of Moyamen^ 
sing Avenue, held in trust by the Third Presbyterian 
Church, became available for church purposes. This 
lot, 80 feet wide and 200 feet deep, extended from 
Greenwich Street to Tasker Street. Under the leader- 
ship of Mr. Sailer, and largely through his efforts, the 
" Greenwich Street ChapeV^ was erected upon this lot at 
a cost of $10,000. The Chapel was occupied by the 
Sabbath School on the First Sabbath of January, 1866. 
Preaching services were also held on Sabbath evenings 
during the greater part of the year. 

On the 1st of June, 1867, Mr. William Hutton, a 
graduate of Hamilton College and Union Theological 
Seminary, and a licentiate of the Fourth Presbytery of 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 349 

Philadelphia, was invited to take charge of the enter- 
prise. He accepted the invitation. Preaching services 
were appointed ; weekly meetings for prayer and Bible 
study were held, and systematic visitation of the 
neighborhood was begun. Mr. Hutton was ordained 
an Evangelist by the Fourth Presbytery in October, 
1867. At this service Rev. R. H. Allen, D.D., presided, 
and the sermon was preached by Rev. T. J. Shephard, 
D.D. In the meantime the attendance upon the Sabbath 
and week-day services increased, quite a religious interest 
was developed, and the desire for a church organization 
was deeply felt. On Sabbath evening December 8, 1867, 
exactly six months after Mr. Hutton took charge of 
the Mission, a church was organized by a Committee of 
the Fourth Presbytery. Twenty-six persons constituted 
the new organization. Randolph Sailer and Samuel 
Loag were elected elders. The church was named 
" The Greenwich Street Presbyterian Church in the 
city of Philadelphia." Mr. Hutton continued as Stated 
Supply until IN'ovember 5, 1868, when he was installed 
pastor b}^ the Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia. Rev. 
Herrick Johnson, D.D., preached the installation ser- 
mon. The charge to the pastor was delivered by Rev. 
Peter Stryker, D.D., the charge to the people by Rev. 
Richard H. Allen, D.D. Immediately after the organi- 
zation of the church special services were commenced 
by Mr. Hutton, and as a result of these services the 



350 PRESBYTERY 

membership was doubled, twenty-eight persons uniting 
at the following communion. Since the organization 
was effected, and up to January 1, 1888, five hundred 
and forty-three persons have united with this church. 
Of this number three hundred and eighty united on 
profession of faith. The church suffered severely in 
the death of Mr. Sailer, which occurred in January, 
1869. He was elder, trustee, and Sabbath School 
superintendent. Educated for the ministry he was of 
great assistance to the pastor ; while by his large and 
generous contributions he sustained the congregation 
in their efforts for self-support. In 1880 quite an 
improvement was made to the church property. The 
Greenwich Street front was removed, an addition of 
twenty-two feet was made to the building, and a beauti- 
ful Gothic front was erected. This front is of dark 
pressed brick, the Gothic arches and cornices of the 
towers being of ornamental brick, buff' and brown in 
color. The tower on the east is fifty feet high ; that on 
the west with spire is 100 feet high. In the latter a sweet- 
toned bell has been placed. An entrance was also made 
from Tasker Street, and the Tasker Street front was 
considerably elevated and otherwise improved. Eight 
beautiful stained-glass windows, in memory of de- 
ceased members, were placed in the Greenwich Street 
and Tasker Street fronts. The interior of the church 
was also improved. It was painted, papered, carpeted, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 351 

and cushioned. The cost of these varied improvements 
amounted to $5300, and this amount was raised by the 
pastor in over 450 subscriptions of from ten cents to 
two hundred dollars each. The building as thus 
enlarged and improved was dedicated on Sabbath even- 
ing, JSTovember 14, 1880. The sermon was preached by 
the Eev. W. P. Breed, D.D., and the Revs. Dr. Colfelt, 
Dunn, Mutchmore, and Shephard participated in the 
dedicatory exercises. The church is out of debt. Mr. 
Hutton is still pastor; and on the 1st of Jane, 1888, he 
will have completed twenty-one years of ministerial 
labor in connection with the Greenwich Street Church. 
Quite recently he has collected over $2500 with which 
to purchase a manse. 

Present Eldership. 
G. H. Immendorf, Wesley Zener. 

Constantine Bremer, 

HOPE CHURCH. 

It was on June 4, 1871, that John A. N'eff, an active 
Sunday School worker, gathered a few of the children 
of Gray's Ferry under a willow tree, then called Clark's 
Woods, now Patton Street and Gray's Ferry Road, and 
here in the open air God was first publicly praised by 
infant voices. The late Miss Rebecca M. Clark, seeing 
the need of the work, gave a lot of ground in trust to 



352 PRESBYTERY 

Mr. William Harmer, John Wanamaker, and John 
A. J^eft', for the use of the school. 

On January 28, 1872, the first meeting was held in a 
one-story building without windows, and snowing. An 
effort was then made to find a church to care for the 
infant child. Mr. Henry i^. Paul, one of the elders in 
Calvary Church, became interested ; and the Eev. Z. 
M. Humphrey, D.D., LL.D., pastor of Calvary Church, 
whose large heart and generous spirit would not leave 
a babe in the woods, called the attention of Presbytery 
to the infant child. That generous body, knowing the 
fostering care of Calvary Church, gave the infant to 
this mother to be nursed by her for the glory of God. 
The Eev. Norman W. Carey was selected by the Session 
and took charge of the work May 13, 1873, and labored 
faithfully for two years, laying a good foundation of 
seventy-five children in the Sunday School and twenty- 
five communicant members. He resigned the work 
May 13, 1875, and the Rev. J. Gray Bolton, just gradu- 
ating from Union Theological Seminary, was selected 
by the people worshiping at the Chapel, and the Session 
of Calvary Church, and was ordained in the chapel by 
the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1875. This work 
has been a steady grow^th by the increase of members 
and property. The one-story building was enlarged by 
the addition of a two-story building of five rooms, 
study, Bible-class rooms, library, and infant class 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 353 

room, which has been used up to the present for church 
a<nd Sunday School purposes. But in the good Provi- 
dence of God a new lot was secured adjoining the 
Sunday School building, on the corner of Thirty-third 
and Wharton streets. The growth of the church soon 
made it necessary to have a church building ; and on 
'New Year's eve, between the hours of eleven and 
twelve o'clock, the last week of the old year 1886, 
fifteen hundred and sixty dollars was subscribed for a 
new church building. Then a building committee was 
appointed by the pastor at the request of the financial 
board. "William Baxter, Andrew P. Haig, George 
Mowbray, and Nicholas E. Boyer were appointed. 

At the missionary meeting of Calvary Church in 
January, 1887, the report of this meeting was 
announced, and that Mr. Bolton had secured pledges 
for $7000, when a building committee was selected 
by the missionary society to cooperate with the com- 
mittee of the chapel. It consisted of John H. Con- 
verse, Henry N. Paul, William S. Blight, and Eobert 
^N". Willson, a suflS.cient amount being subscribed to 
put up the stone work and put on the roof. A contract 
was made for that amount, June, 1887, and so on as 
money had been promised. The corner-stone was laid 
October 15, 1887, by the pastor, assisted by William 
S. Blight. The Hevs. Dr. McCook, Dickey, Patton, 
McCurdy, and Gill took part in the service, and now a 



854 PRESBYTERY 

church can be dedicated free of debt as a centennial 
offering to the Presbyterian Church, May, 1888. The 
additions to the church membership during these thir- 
teen years are marked tokens of God's blessing, 
and exceedingly gratifying, 321 being added, 74 of 
these by letter. The Sunday School has now 500 on 
the roll, and the church 209 communicant members. 
This work has grown and developed in one of the most 
neglected parts of Philadelphia. The former haunt of 
the Schuylkill Rangers is now the place of praise and 
prayer to the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

GRACE CHURCH. 

Grace Presbyterian Church, at Twenty-second and 
Federal streets, was organized by the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia on January 17, 1878. Preaching services 
had been commenced in that vicinity by Rev. Andrew 
Culver, in a " Big Tent," under the auspices of Bethany 
Presbyterian Church, on July 9, 1871. A Sabbath 
School named Grace, of about sixty scholars, had existed 
several months preceding, which was held in Landreth 
Public School building, at Twenty-third and Federal 
streets. This was taken into the " Big Tent," and con- 
tinued there in connection with the preaching services 
by Mr. Culver about seventeen months. In the mean 
time Mr. Culver collected about 200,000 bricks from 
the proprietors of the surrounding brickyards, and 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 355 

solicited money from individuals and churches up the 
city, for the erection of the building at Twenty-second 
and Federal streets. The ground upon which the 
building stands was donated by the late Mr. David 
Landreth, who years previously had his well-known 
seed garden upon the surrounding grounds. 

The congregation and school grew rapidly ; and 
at the suggestion of members of Presbytery and the 
request of the people, the Presbytery of Philadelphia 
organized the church, as above stated, in 1878 ; and 
Mr. Culver was called and installed pastor on March 
21, 1878. Until recently the church was embarrassed 
with a balance of indebtedness upon the building, when 
the Presbytery of Philadelphia, through its " City 
Mission Committee," aided the church in the liquida- 
tion of the entire claims, so that there is now a property 
clear of all indebtedness of about $25,000 in value. 

Recently about five hundred new buildings have been 
erected in the vicinity of the church, and the attendance 
upon the church services and the Sabbath school has 
greatly increased, so that additional conveniences are 
needed, and the church is hoping that some way may 
be opened by which means may be obtained for these 
accommodations. 

Present Eldership. 
Robert Paul, Wm. Sidebottom. 

John Littley, 



356 PRESBYTERY 

CHURCH OP THE EVANGEL. 

The Evangel is the new name for the old Fifteenth 
Church at Fifteenth and Lombard, in the new location 
at Eighteenth and Tasker streets. At that point a 
mission had been in successful operation for a few 
years, when, selling the old property at Fifteenth and 
Lombard, the proceeds and the organization were 
transferred to this point, the mission merging with the 
old organization under this new name. In May, 1887, 
a beautiful and commodious new brick building was 
dedicated free of debt. The property is worth $30,000. 
The financial success of the enterprise is due largely to 
Mrs. G. S. Benson, and her son, Mr. G. S. Benson, Jr. 
The Sunday School numbers 400, and the congregations 
are steadily increasing under the ministrations of the 
pastor. Rev. W. H. Gill, who was installed in May, 
1887, though he had been pastor elect since the Autumn 
previous. 

Mr. Gill is of Irish extraction, received his Aca- 
demic training at Beaver, Pa., his collegiate education 
at Jefferson College, his theological at Princeton and 
Allegheny Seminaries. He has been pastor successively 
at Greensburg and Allegheny, Pa., Westfield, N^. J., 
and Otsego, ]^. Y., previous to his present pastorate. 
Present Eldership. 
Wm. Thompson, Chas. Young, 

B. S. Keeler, David McAllister. 

A. Hernlet, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 357 

FIRST AFRICAN CHURCH. 

This church owes its existence, under God, to the 
Rev. Archibald Alexander, D.D., who, in 1806, whilst 
pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in Philadel- 
phia, was instrumental in forming the " Evangelical 
Society of Philadelphia," an institution which had 
special reference to the spiritual welfare of the colored 
population of the city. As this society had taken 
measures for organizing the colored people into a 
Presbyterian Church, Dr. Alexander, by application to 
the Rev. Dr. Gideon Blackburn of Tennessee, secured the 
services, as a missionary, of Mr. John Gloucester, a 
slave whose freedom Dr. B. had purchased, and who 
was of much promise for usefulness in preaching the 
gospel. In this movement Dr. Alexander had the 
cordial cooperation of Rev. Drs. Ashbel Green, J. J. 
Janeway, George C. Potts, and Elders McMullin, 
Markoe, ^Nassau, Ralston, and Capt. Moore. 

Mr. Gloucester, who had been licensed and ordained 
by the Presbytery of Union, Tennessee, April 30, 1810, 
was received, on his testimonials, by the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia, April 16, 1811. Mr. Gloucester was a 
man of fervent piety, as well as much preaching ability, 
and his earnest labors were greatly blessed. In the 
latter part of May or early in June, 1807, the " First 
African Presbyterian Church" was organized, Drs. 



358 PRESBYTERY 

Alexander and Green, and other friends of the cause 
officiating on the occasion. This was the first African 
Presbyterian Church established in the United States. 

In 1809 a lot at the corner of Shippen and Seventh 
streets was purchased for a church edifice, the corner- 
stone was laid by the Rev. George Potts in 1810, and 
the building was dedicated to the service of God May 
31, 1811, the Eev. Dr. A. Alexander, who had pre- 
viously removed to Princeton, preaching the sermon. 
Here Mr. Gloucester labored very diligently and suc- 
cessfully until his death, which occurred May 2, 1822, 
in the forty-sixth year of his age. 

May 8, 1822, Rev. Samuel E. Cornish was elected 
pastor. This election led to a division of the church, 
a part of the congregation being organized into a Sec- 
ond African Church in March, 1824. Mr. Benjamin 
Hughes was pastor of the church from May, 1824, until 
November of the same year. The church then depended 
on supplies for three years. Mr. Charles Gardner sup- 
plied the pulpit 1827-30. Mr. Cornish again served 
the congregation as supply 1831-2. Dr. Green, under 
appointment of Presbj^tery, took the care of the church 
1833-5. Mr. ]S^athan Harned was supply of the church 
1835-6. Rev. Charles W, Gardner was installed pas- 
tor July 5, 1836. After his resignation. Presbytery 
supplied the pulpit by Rev. Griffith Owen, Dr. Cuyler, 
Dr. Joseph H. Jones, and others, for seven years. Rev. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 359 

Wm. T. Catto was pastor 1854-7; Kev. Jonathan C. 
Gibbs 1859-65 ; Rev. Reading B. Johns 1873-9 ; Rev. 
Albert S. Mays 1883-7. The Rev. Alfred i^evin, D.D., 
LL.D., at the request of the congregation, and by ap- 
pointment of Presbytery, is at present Stated Supply of 
the pulpit, and an effort is being made with encourag- 
ing hope of success to secure a new house of worship. 

In 1839 Mr. I. Williams, a member of the Sixth 
Presbyte^an Church, Dr. J. H. Jones, pastor, by will 
left $500 to the church. The Demosthenes Society 
(colored) also gave a donation of $60 for the use of the 
trustees. Subsequently, 1849, Dr. Ashbel Green left by 
will $50 for the church, and an equal sum for Rev, C. 
W. Gardner, formerly the pastor. 

Present Eldership. 

Robert Adger, Samuel Jones. 

Henr}^ Boyer, 

CENTRAL CHURCH (AFRICAN). 

This Church was founded in 1844 by Rev. Stephen 
Gloucester, a son of the Rev. John Gloucester, noticed 
in the sketch of the First African Church. It is 
located in Lombard Street, below I^inth. The edifice 
is a fine brick building, and its interior architecture 
and furniture are neat and comfortable. It has a base- 
ment with a lecture-room, session-room, and minister's 



360 PRESBYTERY 

studv. with a fine library attached. The Rev. John B. 
Eeeve, D.D.. has for many years been its pastor, and 
under his faithful ministrations the church enjoys a 
high degree of ^r^osperity. 

Present Eldership. 
Eobert Jones, William Still, 

John S. Dunn, Thos. C. Jones. 

SOUTHWESTERN CHURCH. 

I. Organization. — The Southwestern Church was or- 
ganized by direction of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, 
Feb. 8, 1853, by a committee, of which Eev. John 
McDowell, D.D., was chairman. Rev. T\'illiam Black- 
wood. D.D.. LL.D., was moderator of the session until 
the first pastor was installed. The church was first 
located on the west side of Twentieth Street, below 
Pine. The present house of worship, on the northeast 
corner of Twentieth and Fitzwater Streets, was dedi- 
cated March 10, 1861. The parsonage, adjoining the 
church on the north, was erected during 1869 and 1870, 
at a cost of S8000. 

II. Pastors. — Rev. James McCaskie, a native of 
Ireland, and who had served the church as Stated Sup- 
ply fi'om its organization, was ordained and installed 
its first pastor. July 12. 1854. He was released June 
20, 1864, and ever since has been in the ministry of the 
Presbvterian Church in Ireland. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 361 

Eev. John McLeod, a native of Philadelphia, who 
was then Secretary of the Board of Domestic Missions 
(New School), was elected the second pastor of this 
church Sept. 27, 1864; and, having served the church 
as pastor-elect from his election, was duly installed in 
1866. After a score of years of faithful and successful 
service, on account of failing health he resigned, and 
was released Feb. 4, 1884, and is now living in London, 
England. 

Rev. Irwin P. McCurdy, D.D., a native of "Western 
^Pennsylvania, who was then pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church in Frederick City, Maryland, and Professor of 
Greek and Higher Mathematics in Frederick Seminary, 
was elected the third pastor of this church, April 14, 
1884, and was installed June 29, 1884. 

III. Supplies. — The following ministers have served 
this church as acting pastors at different periods : Rev. 
Tryon Edwards, D.D., Rev. Edward B. Bruen, Prof. 
Robert Ellis Thompson, D.D., and Rev. Willard M. 
Rice, D.D. All the pastors and supplies of this church 
are still living. 

TV. Elders. — This church has had 17 elders. The 
following are now in active service: Samuel Fulton, 
installed Sept. 4, 1869 ; Charles Edward Miller, Charles 
Crudden, William McKnight, and James Moore, in- 
stalled July 2, 1876 ; James McLaughlin, David Mor- 
rison, and William Riddagh, installed March 20, 1887. 
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362 PRESBYTERY 

V. Present Conditio7i, — During the present pastorate 
the membership of the church has increased from 290 
to over 400 communicants, not including more than 200 
names transferred to the " Reserve Eoll." The activi- 
ties of the congregation have been developed by 
thorough organization, and the church, in every de- 
partment, is in a better condition than at any time in 
its history. The church building has recently under- 
gone extensive repairs. 

CHAMBERS CHURCH. 

The Chambers Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia 
was founded by the Rev. John Chambers, D.D., who 
came from Baltimore in the month of May, 1825, to 
enter on his duties as pastor of the ^N'inth Presbyterian 
Church, then occupying a small brick building on the 
west side of Thirteenth Street, above Market. 

The Presbytery of Philadelphia, however, refused to 
ordain Mr. Chambers, owing to his views on the doc- 
trine of predestination. He was ordained by the Asso- 
ciation of Congregational Ministers of J^ew Haven, Con- 
necticut, and then he established the congregation known 
for about fifty years in Philadelphia as " The First In- 
dependent Church, Broad Street." This body erected 
the present church building at the northeast corner of 
Broad and Sansom streets. The corner-stone was laid 
in March, 1831. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 363 

Under Dr. Chambers's pastorate this organization 
flourished, having at times fully 1200 members. On 
Feb. 14, 1858, the Bethany Mission (now the Bethany 
Presbyterian Church) was started by John "Wanamaker, 
directly under the auspices and with the aid of Mr. 
Chambers and his church. 

In October, 1873, Mr. Chambers, his elders, and all 
his people entered the Presbyterian fold, and were en- 
rolled as the Chambers Presbyterian Church. 

Dr. Chambers died in December of 1875. 

From 1875 to 1884 two pastors occupied the pulpit, 
Drs. Westwood and Otts. The latter returned to the 
South, as the climate did not agree with his family, and 
the Chambers Church then called Rev. Thomas A. Hoy t, 
D.D., the present pastor, under whose care the church 
is prospering. 

The eloquent and instructive sermons preached by 
Dr. Hoyt fill the church on Sabbath mornings with 
appreciative audiences, many of whom are strangers, 
to whom this church, owing to its position, is very 
easy of access. The people of the church have found 
in Dr. Hoyt a preacher nearer to their hearts than any 
pastor since the death of Dr. Chambers. 

Present Eldership. 
Francis Newland, Thomas P. Dill, 

Edward S. Lawyer, Frederick J. Buck, M.D., 

John C. Hunter, Robert H. Hinckley. 



364 PRESBYTERY 

WALNUT STREET CHURCH. 

In the year 1828 a small building was erected on the 
lot where the present edifice now stands (Walnut 
Street, west of Thirty-ninth), by the members of the 
First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. The ground 
itself had been presented to the Presbyterians by Mr. 
Hamilton, in 1808, on condition that they erect a house 
of worship upon it within twenty years. For ten years 
occasional services were held in this building, usually 
by members of the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia. 

In 1838 the Rev. John McKnight began to hold 
regular preaching services, and on the 4th day of March, 
1840, the church was organized. Mr. McKnight re- 
mained on this Home Missionary field till 1852. 

After Mr. McKnight's resignation. Rev. J. Glent- 
worth Butler, D.D., became the pastor, October, 1852, 
and remained so till the Winter of 1868. During his 
ministry the present edifice was erected, and at his 
retirement there were 227 names on the roll of the 
church. 

In the Spring of 1868 the present pastor. Rev. S. W. 
Dana, D.D., was called to this church, where he has 
labored twenty years. Within that time the church 
edifice has been enlarged, a large new Sunday school 
room erected, the interior of the church frescoed and 
remodeled, a new organ put in, all of which have been 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 365 

paid for, and an old debt cancelled, so that there is no 
incumbrance upon the property. The present member- 
ship is 857, and the Sunday schools number over 1200. 
Walnut Street Church is highly prosperous in all its 
departments under the ministry of its acceptable and 
efficient pastor. Its contributions for denominational 
and general benevolent purposes are always on a high 
scale of liberality, and its Christian activities are vigor- 
ous and successful. 

Present Eldership. 

Hon. J. Allison, LL.D., H. M. Lewis, 
Samuel Field, Hon. John Scott, 

Wm. G. Morehead, John D. Wattles. 

CALVARY CHURCH. 

This church was organized November 10, 1853, with 
eight members, and its beautiful house of worship 
dedicated to God. 

The first pastor of the church was the Rev. John 
Jenkins, D.D., who resigned the relation August 10, 
1863, and took charge of a church in Montreal, 
Canada. 

The second pastor w^as the Rev. Walcott Calkins, 
D.D., who was installed April 11, 1864, and, after a 
little more than two years' faithful labor, resigned the 
charge October 29, 1866. 



366 PRESBYTERY 

Dr. Calkins was succeeded in the pastorate, May, 
1868, by the Rev. Z. M. Humphrey, D.D., by whom it 
was filled until May, 1875, when he resigned, to accept 
the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History and Church 
Polity in Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati. Dr. 
Humphrey was elected Moderator of the General As- 
sembly at Chicago in 1871. He died ^N'ovember 13, 
1881. He was a gentleman of lovely spirit and schol- 
arly attainments, a gifted preacher, and a faithful ser- 
vant of Christ. 

E-ev. Charles Andrews Dickey, D.D., pastor of the 
First Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Mo., was called 
to Calvary Church in December, 1875, and still con- 
tinues to be its pastor. Under his faithful ministry 
the church has sustained its previous character and 
reputation. Li addition to other important service 
which Dr. Dickey renders to the work of his denomi- 
nation, he has from its organization been a trustee of 
the Presbyterian Hospital, and is, at present, the effi- 
cient President of its Board. 

There has been a missionary association in existence 
in this church since January 12, 1855, and on its roll 
stands the name of the Rev. Gerald F. Dale, the gifted 
and devoted missionary, who recently died in the 
Master's service in Syria. 

Calvary Church has been eminently active and suc- 
cessful in the organization of new churches in the city. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 367 

On September 14, 1855, by its generous contributions 
and fosterino; care Olivet Church was brous^ht into ex- 
istence. In 1857 it started " Carmer' (which has since 
become N'orth Broad Street Church, Rev. Dr. Harper's) 
and "Tabor" Churches, in 1868 "Hermon," and in 
1872 it started " Hope," which it has ever since sus- 
tained, and for which it is this year building a church 
costing $20,000. 

The contributions of Calvary Church aggregate 
about $1,500,000. Its present membership is about 
600. The Centennial year contributions will be more 
than $50,000. 

This church has an excellent record, and exerts a 
wide influence for good. Several of its deceased elders 
are elsewhere noticed in this volume. 

Present Eldership. 

John H. Atwood, Robert Willson, 

Henry ^NT. Paul, John B. Gest. 

M. L. Frederick, 

TABOR CHURCH. 

In March, 1857, a Sabbath School was opened under 
the auspices of the Philadelphia Sabbath-School Asso- 
ciation, in a small building on Monroe Street, between 
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. The school in- 
creased rapidly, and was removed to the corner of 



368 PRESBYTERY 

Catharine and Seventeenth streets, taken under the care 
of the Missionary Association of the Calvary Presby- 
terian Church, and superintended by Mr. J. S. Cum- 
mings. The Association soon after purchased a lot at 
the southeast corner of Seventeenth and Fitzwater 
streets, and erected thereon a handsome brick building, 
fitting up the first floor for Sabbath School purposes, 
and the " Upper Room" for public worship. The build- 
ing was dedicated in J^ovember, 1857, and named 
Tahor Chai:)eL 

In July, 1858, a Missionary Association invited 
the Rev. George Yan Deurs to take charge of the 
enterprise as Missionary Pastor, under whose ministry, 
in connection with the activity of his colaborers in the 
Sabbath School, it made great progress. In March, 
1863, enlarged accommodations being required, Mr. M. 
W. Baldwin, an elder in Calvary Church, purchased a 
lot at the southwest corner of Eighteenth and Christian 
streets for the congregation, and undertook to furnish 
them, at his own expense, with a church edifice. On 
the 23d of April the people worshiping at Tabor Chapel, 
though still belonging to Calvary Church, were organ- 
ized into a separate and distinct body called the Tabor 
Presbyterian Church. On the 2d of July the corner- 
stone of the Church, at Eighteenth and Christian streets, 
was laid by Miss Cecelia Baldwin, the daughter of Mr. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 369 

M. W. Baldwin, to whom the people presented a silver 
trowel as a token of grateful remembrance. 

Mr. Van Deurs's labors were greatly blessed in this 
field. He was succeeded by the Rev. Robert Adair, 
w^ho was pastor with marked faithfulness and success, 
1871-80, and who, on resigning the charge, was made 
Pastor Emeritus. Rev. W. B. Skillman followed Mr. 
Adair in the pastorate, and still occupies the position. 
Under his earnest and acceptable ministry the church 
is in a highly prosperous condition. 

"WOODLAND CHURCH. 

The Woodland Presbyterian Church was authorized 
by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, July 3, 1865, and 
incorporated April 11, 1866. The action of Presbytery 
was based upon the favorable report of a committee — 
Dr. W. E. Schenck, chairman — appointed in the early 
part of the same year to consider the expediency of 
establishing a Sunday School in West Philadelphia. 
Continuing its conferences with friends of the project, 
the committee finally requested the following to act as 
a provisional Board of Trustees of the new church : 
John Mc Arthur, Jr., J. L. Sprogel, Rev. Henry Reeves, 
J. R. Mason, Cornelius K. Stribling, C. A. Findley, 
Maurice A. Wurtz, and Rev. S. H. McMullin. 

Thus appointed, the Board shortly afterwards asso- 



370 PRESBYTERY 

ciated with themselves James M. Sellers, William 
Montelius, and F. P. Harkthal. 

The records of the church in the Fall of 1865 show 
frequent meetings of the Board, and, very soon, a lot 
was selected, immediately to the east of the present 
location of the chapel. On this lot, standing quite a 
distance back from the present line of Pine Street, was 
begun the building now used as a chapel. Pending 
its erection, however, the church feeling and fellowship 
were sustained and developed by instituting weekly 
prayer-meetings — held at first in the school-room of the 
Eev. S. H. McMullin, IST. E. cor. 40th and Baltimore 
Avenue. 

The building was finished in the latter part of March, 
1866. Meantime, the interest had extended so that 
when, on Friday evening March 23, Presbytery's com- 
mittee met for the purpose of organizing the church, 
certificates of dismission were presented to the num- 
ber of thirty-four. At the same meeting. Dr. M. B. 
Grier presiding, the church elected Samuel R. Mason, 
Maurice A. Wurtz, and William Montelius elders. 
Sunday morning, March 25, the church was dedicated, 
and on August 28th the Rev. Wallace Radcliffe was 
ordained and installed pastor. 

The enterprise was an immediate success. I^umbers 
increased rapidly until, as the treasurer, Mch. 31, 1868, 
writes, " We had no room to grow. All the available pews 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 371 

were rented the first year. . . . If the mission of this church 
is simply to fill this house^ then we have fulfilled our mission 
and our work is done.'' Hence arose the question of a new 
building. A building committee was appointed, consist- 
ing of the following gentlemen : John McArthur, Jr., 
William Milligan, Francis Squire, John P. Logan, 
William Montelius, Maurice Wurtz, Henry Gregory, 
and the pastor. The, years 1868-9 were spent in nego- 
tiating for a lot and in securing subscriptions — amounts 
which, read to-day, show intense devotion to the cause. 
After embarrassing delays the lot 42d and Pine was 
secured, and on Monday morning, August 16, 1869, 
" the first dirt was thrown up by James M. Sellers and 
Miss Willard in the presence of twenty or thirty of the 
congregation.'' 

The building was finished in the latter part of 1870. 
Prior to this, however, the Rev. Wallace Radcliffe had 
resigned, and the Rev. James M. Crowell, D.D., had 
been called. The new building was dedicated January 
1, 1871, and Dr. Crowell was installed January 12. 
His coming gave a new impetus to the work, fifty-five 
members being added within three months. The total 
membership reported to Presbytery April 1, 1871, was 
132, and during the rest of his pastorate the church 
records show a continual increase in the membership. 
On February 28, 1883, Dr. Crowell resigned, engaging 
in the service of the American Sunday School Union. 



372 . PRESBYTERY 

For two years succeeding this the church was under the 
care of Eev. Leonard Wolsey Bacon as Stated Supply. 
Dr. Bacon's ministry incUided the performance of all 
the pastoral duties, and brought the church great 
material advantage. 

The present pastor, the Rev. James Stuart Dickson, 
was installed July 2, 1886, since which time fifty-two 
have been added on certificate and thirty-two on pro- 
fession, a pleasant feature of which is the large propor- 
tion from the Sabbath School. On Christmas day, 1887, 
Mr. Dickson, to the great joy of the people, announced 
that subscriptions had been made, covering the entire 
indebtedness of the church — a mortgage of $19,000. 
Under God this result was due to the generous aid of 
friends outside of the church, to the hearty cooperation 
of the membership, and lastly to Mr. Dickson himself, 
as the projector of the scheme and the inspiration of 
all. 

-WYLIE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 

(formerly the "First Reformed Presbyterian Church, 
Philadelphia,") was organized January 28, 1798, by a 
commission of the Reformed Presbytery. Its religious 
services were held originally in the humble abode of 
Thomas Thompson, near South and Penn streets, and 
afterwards at Carson's School House in Gaskill Street, 
and in. a building erected by the congregation in St. 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 373 

Mary's Street. In 1817 a church was erected on Elev- 
enth Street near Market, and in 1854 another building 
on Broad Street below Spruce. One of the sermons at 
the dedication of this building was preached by Rev. 
Alexander Duff, D.D., the celebrated missionary of the 
Free Church of Scotland. Here also was held the great 
!N^ational Presbyterian Convention in ^N'ovember, 1867, 
which resulted in 1869 in the reunion of the Old and 
l^ew School departments of the Presbyterian Church. 
The Rev. Samuel B. Wylie, D.D., ordained June 25, 
1800, was installed as its first pastor in 1803 and con- 
tinued in office honored and beloved till his eminent 
and useful labors were closed by death, October 13, 
1852. The Rev. T. W. J. Wylie, D.D., his son (the 
present efficient pastor), was ordained October 26, 1843, 
and installed as assistant and successor to his father, 
and under his long, faithful, and acceptable ministry 
the church has been blessed with marked prosperity. 
The number of communicants is 542. The Sabbath 
Schools consist of 426 officers, teachers, and pupils, of 
whom 123 are in connection with the Colored Mission 
School. Thirty- eight persons connected with the con- 
gregation have become preachers of the gospel, and nine 
persons have gone as missionaries to the foreign field. 
Eleven other churches in Philadelphia have derived 
their origin from this congregation or from churches 
formed from it. During the late war ninety-seven per- 



374 PRESBYTERY 

sons enlisted in the army, of whom several became 
officers of various ranks ; a number served under the 
Christian Commission, of which one of the members of 
this church, the Hon. Geo. H. Stuart, was the president. 
Sixty-five persons connected with the church or Sab- 
bath School have become preachers of the gospel. Ten 
(males and females) have become missionaries on the 
Foreign field. 

Present Eldership. 
Geo. H. Stuart, AV. J. Chambers, 

M. Scott, J. H. Jackson, 

T. M. Kerr, D. Chambers, 

Jno. Drain, Geo. McFadden. 

J. Haggerty, 

HOLLOND MEMORIAL CHURCH. 

The history of Hollond is part of the history of the 
Tenth Presbyterian Church. Since the founding of the 
Moyamensing Mission in 1843, the Old Tenth has 
w^rought in this field with true Missionarj^ spirit. 
Eev. Henry A. Boardman, D.D., used his influence in 
behalf of the Mission in his large-hearted way through- 
out his life. Besides directing the liberality of liberal 
people towards the School, he remembered the needs 
of the work by personal bequest. His successors. Rev. 
John Dewitt, D.D., and the Rev. T^Tm. Brenton Greene, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 375 

and a faithful band of teachers and contributors have 
to this day assisted in the work with unswerving 
fidelity. 

The Moyamensing Mission was established March, 
1843, in a hall on Christian Street near Ninth, by mem- 
bers of the Tenth Presbyterian Church. The first 
Superintendent was Andrew P. Happer, then a medical 
student, now the Rev. A. P. Happer, D.D., missionary 
in China. The School prospered, and in 1848 a lot was 
purchased, and a building erected on Carpenter Street 
below Tenth. Much of the success of this School was 
due to the efficient leadership of Mr. Maurice K. 
Wurtz, and the mission spirit of teachers frona other 
churches. In 1856 Rev. W. M. Rice became mission- 
ary in the neighborhood, and on Oct. 11, 1858, Moya- 
mensing Presbyterian Church was organized. Dr. Rice 
was installed pastor, and labored faithfully on the field 
for Rye years. Rev. S. T. Lowrie succeeded Dr. Rice 
and remained in the work until he was called to 
Bethany. 

In the meantime the Church was dissolved, and the 
Sunday School would have shared the dissolution but 
for the persistence of some of the teachers. They found 
a liberal friend in Miss Harriet Hollond, and the School 
soon regained its old prosperity. In 1870 Miss Hollond 
died, leaving a bequest of $10,000 to the Tenth Presby- 
terian Church towards the establishment of a Mission 



376 PRESBYTERY 

Sunday School. The bequest was conditioned upon 
the removal of the school to a more favorable locality 

After some delay the present property, at the corner 
of Federal and Clarion streets, was bought. Much 
additional aid was secured from members of the Tenth 
Church and others. The corner-stone of the present 
Sunday School building was laid July 3, 1873, and the 
School entered its new Sabbath home Feb. 15, 1874. 
Much of the later prosperity of the School is due to the 
Christian enterprise and enthusiasm of Mr. Charles E. 
Morris. He became Superintendent of the School in 
1871, and from that time to his death in 1879 his in- 
fluence in the School was a continual inspiration. 

In 1875 the Sunday School Building was enlarged 
by the addition of a Parlor and Lecture-Room, the gift 
of Miss Annie E. Morris and her friends. In 1877 
workers from the School established a Mission on Pas- 
say unk Avenue near Morris, which they called Faith. 
They afterwards removed it to Broad and Castle 
Avenue, where, under the name of the new Scots 
Church, it is flourishing greatly. 

In the Fall of 1874 the Rev. Wm. F. Garret was ap- 
pointed minister at the Mission b}^ the Session of the 
Tenth Presbyterian Church. He resigned in the Spring 
of '78, and was immediately succeeded by the Rev. J. 
Henry Sharpe, D.D., who ministered to the people 
until Dec. 1881. Rev. J. R. Miller took up the work 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 377 

in the year 1881. Hollond Memorial Church was 
organized March 24, 1882. Dr. Miller resigned in 
Sep. 1883, and the Eev. W. M. Paden, the present 
pastor, entered upon his work in Oct. of the same year. 
During these later years the School and the Church 
have had wonderful prosperity. Under the superin- 
tendency of E. C. Ogden, Esq., the School now numbers 
1400. The additions to the Church since its organiza- 
tion have been over 90 each year, and the present 
membership is over 600. 

Present Eldership. 
' Eobert C. Ogden, Theo. H. Loder, 

Wm. L. Cook, Samuel M. Kennedy. 

THE FIRST CHURCH, SOUTHWARK. 

The Eev. Eobert Adair was pastor of this church 
1839-48. Since his resignation the church has been at 
different times under the pastoral care of the Eev. E. 

B. Bruen, Eev. A. Culver, Eev. A. IST. Keiguin, Eev. J. 

C. Thompson, and Eev. MciTulty. Its membership is 
ninety-two. John Stinson is at present its only elder. 



25 



APPENDICES 



APPENDIX I. 

THE CHURCH OF JAMAICA, L. I. 

The Rev. Peter D. Oakey, of Springfield, L. I., New York, 
in an article in the Presbyterian Encyclopcedia, says : — 

'' Jamaica was settled by Presbyterians. Before Mr. Den- 
ton left Hempstead the church was troubled with sharp con- 
tentions between the Independents and Presbyterians. In 
1657 Governor Stuyvesant visited Hempstead, and used his 
influence to persuade Mr. Denton to continue his ministry 
there, his own church affinities inclining him to favor the 
Presbyterian form of government. But the troubles increas- 
ing, Mr. Denton left, and the Independents gained the control, 
and had a Stated Supply for a number of years. Then, through 
these continued dissensions, the large increase of Quakerism, 
and the establishment of Episcopacy under the English rule, 
the Presbyterian Church gradually declined, and passed out of 
sight as an organized body. The Rev. Mr. Jenney writes, 
September, 1729 : *A few Presbyterians at Hempstead have 
an unordained preacher to officiate for them, whom they could 
not support were it not for the assistance which they receive 
from their brethren in the neighboring parish of Jamaica.' 

" This, as far as the writer can ascertain, is the latest mention 
made of the existence of any Presbyterian Church at Hemp- 



880 APPENDIX I. 

stead till after the lapse of many years, when the present flour- 
ishing church was organized. 

*' But the Presbyterian tree planted by the hand of Richard 
Denton, through the Divine blessing, has never ceased to bear 
fruit. Two sons of Mr. Denton, Nathanael and Daniel, with 
a number of their Presbyterian brethren, formed a colony, and 
on the 21st of March, 1656, purchased from the Indians a 
large tract of land, now included in the village and town of 
Jamaica. As might be expected, they immediately established 
religious worship. In a memorial of the inhabitants of Jamaica, 
signed by Nathanael Denton and others, addressed to Governor 
Hunter, we find the following statement : ' This town of 
Jamaica, in the year 1656, was purchased from the Indian na- 
tives by divers persons, Protestants, dissenters, in the manner 
of worship, from the forms used in the Church of England, 
who have called a minister of our own profession to officiate 
among them, who continued so to do during the time of the 
Dutch government.' This clearly intimates that they had 
preaching service from their first settlement in the town, and 
consequently the origin of the church at Jamaica dates back to 
1656. They then, with commendable zeal, soon took measures 
for the erection of a parsonage, as the following extract shows : 
December 20, 1662, a committee was appointed to ' make ye 
rates for ye minister's house, and transporting ye minister.' 
The exact date of the Rev. Zachariah Walker's call is not 
given, but on March 2, 1663, the parsonage was assigned to 
him and his heirs. From this date to the present day there is 
a clear record of every minister who has served the church, 
together with the time of their service. George Macnish, the 
eighth pastor, was one of the original members of the Mother 
Presbytery of Philadelphia. That this church has always 
been a Presbyterian Church there seems no room for doubt. 
It is so denominated in all the records where it is named. It 



APPENDIX I. 381 

has had a bench of ruling elders from time immemorial. No- 
vember 25, 1700, it was voted to continue Mr. John Hoblert 
here among us in the work of the ministry, provided he be or- 
dained 'according to ye Rule & way of the Presbyterian way, 
& it is the unanomoss mind of the towne that he be ordained 
Accordingly.' 

" This church has ever been a fruitful vine. In 1702 there 
were more than a hundred families noted for their intelligent 
piety and Christian deportment. They had a stone church 
worth £600 and a parsonage valued at £1500, the glebe con- 
sisting of an orchard and two hundred acres of land. Besides 
being the mother of other churches in the vicinity, it contrib- 
uted families to build up the First Presbyterian Church in New 
York City, and subsequently Rutgers Street Church, also the 
founding of Elizabeth City, and largely the Presbyterian 
Church of Hopewell, N. J. Since 1816 twenty-seven have 
gone from the bosom of this church into the ministry of the 
gospel. 

" The above statement of facts, which I have verified by 
personal examination of the authentic sources here mentioned, 
seems to indicate that, laying aside all merely presumptive or 
inferential suppositions, and confining ourselves to documentary 
evidence, Richard Denton was one of the very first Presbyte- 
rian Ministers in the country, and the Church of Jamaica, 
Queen's County, N. Y., is the oldest existent Presbyterian 
Church in the United States. Sources of information : Thomp- 
son's His. of L. I., Woodbridge's His. Discourse, Onderdonk's 
His. of Queen's County, McDonald's Ch. His., N. Y. State 
Doc. His., Moore's Early His. of Hempstead, Jamaica Town 
Records." 



382 APPENDIX II. 

APPENDIX II. 

MATTHEW HILL'S LETTER TO RICHARD BAXTER, 1669. 

Maryland, Charles County, April 3, 1669. 
For the Rev. Mr. Richard Baxter, at his home in Acton, near London. 

Honored Sir : I should not have made so bold with your 
precious time designed for better uses than the perusal of so 
mean a paper as this, but that I could not furnish myself with any 
other means of testifying the due thankfulness that I bear within 
my heart for your singular kindness and consideration to one 
of my meanness. I cannot but acknowledge that your bounty 
found me under a great deal of misery, as well as meanness, 
and hath been instrumental in putting of me into a capacity of 
living comfortably, and as I hope serviceably too ; the Lord I 
hope will place it to your account. I am sure that the blessing 
of Him that was ready to perish doth reach you though at this 
distance, what you have lost in your purse I hope you will re- 
gain in a better place. Sir, I am afraid to trouble you with 
any discourse concerning myself. Only I cannot but judge it 
my duty to be accountable for what I either am or have to sue 
from whom I have received the means of my new life and 
livelihood, and particularly to yourself. Divine goodness hath 
been pleased to land my foot on a province of Virginia called 
Maryland, which is a province distinct from the government 
of Virginia, of which the Lord Baltimore is proprietor and 
governor. Under his lordship's government we enjoy a great 
deal of liberty, and particularly in matters of religion. We 
have many that give obedience to the Church of Rome who 
have their public liberty, our governor being of that persua- 
sion. We have many also of the Reformed Religion who have 
a long while lived as sheep without a shepherd, though 
last year brought in a young man from Ireland who hath al- 



APPENDIX II. 383 

ready had good success in his work. Divine providence hath 
also cast my lot amongst a loving and a willing people, and we 
enjoy our public opportunity with a great deal of freedom, that 
which, as I hope, will make my work the more successful, 
is, the people are not at all fond of the liturgy or ceremonies, 
In so much as I have not yet heard any one with whom I have 
to do, to speak a word for them. The people called Quakers 
have gained a great many proselytes in this place, but their 
doctrine, or devise rather, hath lately decayed, very much of 
itself, and is now quite dead and buried. Their very liberty 
hath been their ruin. We have room for more ministers, 
though their encouragement, as I judge, cannot be altogether 
as great as ours who are already settled ; because we are where 
the people and the plantations are the thickest. It is judged 
by some that are acquainted with the state of the people better 
than myself, that two or three itinerary preachers that have no 
dependence upon the people for maintenance would be emi- 
nently instrumental among them, though the people themselves, 
if I mistake not, are naturally of free dispositions and kind to 
their ministers, and would take off that charge from such as 
should be willing to undergo it, in a very short time. How 
many young men are there in England that want wages and 
work too ? We cannot but judge it their duty to come over 
and help us. Sir, I hope your own inclination will be advo- 
cate enough to plead the cause of this poor people and engage 
you to improve your interest on our behalf with some of our 
brethren in the work of the Lord. As to myself, I have not 
yet done begging. My books, when I was in England, were 
too few to buy me food, and as we have not the opportunity, so 
I cannot but acknowledge I have not the ability as yet of pur- 
chasing such books as are useful and necessary for my work. 
I humbly beg of you that you will please to supply me with a 
few of such as you judge meet for my use, and, if that be any 



384 APPENDIX II. 

argument, I dare plead that after this time I hope I have done 
begging. The young gentleman, the bearer hereof, is also to 
give you a full account of our country and the state of our af- 
fairs, whom I have engaged to wait upon you with this, and to 
attend your commands if you shall be pleased to honour me 
with what returns you shall think fit to give to my request. 
He is kinsman to Dr. Whitchcote, and of the same name. I 
was much beholden to Mr. Davy and his good lady for their 
bounty towards me at my coming fro.m England, which I could 
not but make mention of, because your letter to them and in- 
terest in them was so successful an advocate for me to my no 
small advantage. I may justly say, I came with my staff only 
over the great waters, and now the Lord hath blessed me with 
more than my heart durst wish, for which, as I desire to bless 
the Lord first, so I cannot but acknowledge my humble and 
hearty thankfulness to yourself as mainly instrumental in my 
present liberty and livelihood. So I humbly entreat your favor- 
able interpretation of this my freedom, which I assure you my 
present necessity enforces me to. My hopes of outward 
maintenance, or of being able to purchase anything that I want 
of myself not being likely to be accomplished until our harvest 
for tobacco, which is the only current money of our province. 
I hope your goodness will give your poor orator the freedom of 
begging from you the favor to represent my condition to some 
of your brethren or friends to whom God hath given ability 
and hearts to help those that stand in need of their help. I 
dare give you no further trouble, only by acknowledging myself 
honored sir 

Your humble servant and unworthy fellow-laborer in the 
work of the Gospel, Matthew Hill. 

The above letter was discovered by Dr. Briggs in the sum- 
mer of 1884, in Dr. Williams' Library, London, among the 
MS. correspondence of Richard Baxter. 



APPENDIX III. AND IV. 385 



APPENDIX III. 



John Frazer, who, having taken his degree of Master of 
Arts, and gone to London for his safety and preparation for 
the ministry, was seized at a meeting while the Rev. Alexander 
Shiels was preaching. The minister, with Frazer, John Fore- 
man, and five others of his hearers, were sent up to Scotland, 
having first lain in Newgate. They were marched through 
London, manacled two-and-two, as criminals. They were ex- 
amined by the council and sent to Dunatter. One hundred 
persons were thrust into a vault underground, with one window 
which opened to the sea; there, ankle-deep in mire, with 
nothing on which to sit or lie, they were pent up through the 
summer. Frazer, weak and sick, was marched on foot to 
Leith, where a Newcastle ship, Richard Hutton, master, was 
lying to receive him and his companions in tribulation. Twenty- 
eight persons left at this time a testimony dated August 28, 
1685, against their unjust banishment, and for the covenants 
and the preaching of the word in fields and houses. — Webstek. 



APPENDIX IV. 

REV. JOHN MACKIE. 

^' Mr. Mackie," says Dr. Sprague, in his Annals of the 
American Pulpit, " was son of Patrick Mackie, of St. 
Johnstone, County Donegal, Ireland." In the minutes of the 
Presbytery of Laggan at McGee College, Londonderry, is the 
following record: " Mch. 25, 1693. The meeting being cer- 
tainly informed that Mr. Josias McKee resolves speedily to re- 
turn to Europe from Virginia, Mr. Craighead is appointed to 



386 APPENDIX V. 

M'rite to him inviting him to this meeting in case he find that 
he cannot continue in America." Mr. Mackie took charge of 
another congregation on the Southern Branch, and retained 
his connection with it until his death in November, 1716. 



APPENDIX V. 

Mr. Makemie's text, when he preached in New York, Jan- 
uary 19, 1707, was Psalm 1. 23 : "And to him that ordereth 
his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God." It 
was the substance of two sermons. 

After unfolding the text he announced this doctrine : '^A 
well-ordered conversation is the only way to the kingdom of 
heaven. It is not, he said, causa regnandi^ sed via regni. 
His theme was handled upon the following method : What is 
presupposed by an orderly walk and conversation ? What a 
well-ordered conversation is or w^herein it consists ; reasons 
w^hy a well-ordered conversation is highly necessary as the way 
of salvation, what is necessary and requisite for promoting and 
advancing this well-ordered conversation, what usually and or- 
dinarily hinders and obstructs it, and a practical application, 
first, for information, second, for exhortation, third, for con- 
solation." 

Mr. Makemie printed at Boston the sermon which occa- 
sioned his imprisonment, with the motto (Matt. v. 11, Acts v. 
29) — ^'•Preces et lachrymce sunt anna ecclesiceJ' It is dedi- 
cated to the small congregation which heard it. In referring 
to it he says: '*Had I been thoroughly acquainted with New 
York and the irregularities thereof, which afterwards I was an 
eye and ear witness of, I could not have selected a more suit- 
able doctrine." This he ascribes to Divine Providence, and 



APPENDIX VI. 387 

expresses the hope that it may be an inducement to awaken 
sinners. The dedication is dated March 3, 1706-7. 

On Mr. Makemie's return to Philadelphia with Hampton for 
the meeting of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, March 22, 
1707, he wrote to Benjamin Colman, of Boston : — 

*' Since our imprisonment we have commenced a correspond- 
ence with our Rev. Breth. of the ministry at Boston, which we 
hope according to our intention has been communicated to you 
all, whose sympathizing concurrence I cannot doubt of in an 
expensive struggle for asserting our liberty against the power- 
ful invasion of Lord Cornbury, which is not yet over. I need 
not tell you of a pick^ jury, and the penal laws, one invading 
our American sanctuary, without the least regard to the tolera- 
tion, which should justly alarm us all." 



APPENDIX VI. 

In September, 1733, Mr. Andrews asked the Synod "that 
an assistant be allowed unto him in the ministry. The request 
was unanimously granted," if, first, sufficient provision be made 
for his honorable maintenance during his life among them. 
This, after long discussion, and after conference with some gen- 
tlemen of his congregation, was modified so as to allow the con- 
gregation to call an assistant. Those who desired an assistant 
were directed not to diminish but rather increase their subscrip- 
tions to Andrews, because the present subscription was but 
scanty; that none of the present subscription be alienated 
from him, but that all care be taken to get new ones for him, 
and that he have all the monthly collections. In the following 
May the Presbytery acceded to his request, and gave him leave 
to remove, if he saw fit. In the autumn Hemphill came to this 
country, was received as a member of Synod, and took up his 



388 APPENDIX VI. 

abode in Philadelphia until he should obtain a settlement. An- 
drews invited him to occupy his pulpit a part of each Sabbath, 
but soon regretted it, for "freethinkers,* deists, and nothings'^ 
flocked to hear him, while the better part of the congregation 
stayed away. Andrews attended regularly during the winter, 
and felt himself bound " to article against him," and the com- 
mission tried Hemphill and suspended him. Andrews tells 
Colman that he had never suffered so much as during this pe- 
riod, and that his mind was made up to leave his charge, 
although "the better sort" desired to keep him. 

The congregation could not agree on an assistant, but one 
part supplicated the Synod for Dickinson and another for 
Robert Cross. But while the matter was in debate, the friends 
of the latter asked to be erected into a new congregation, 
capable to call a minister for themselves. Their request was 
granted by a large majority, with the understanding that they 
were not obliged to form a distinct society, but might do so if 
they saw fit. 

The commission met in June, 1736. The endeavors for a 
reunion of the congregation having been unsuccessful, they 
persuaded the friends of Cross to make a further effort, and 
Andrews heartily approved of the design, but his friends would 
not consent. The new erection had supplies till 1737, when 
Robert Cross accepted their call, then the two congregations 
united, and were allowed £50 out of the Synod's funds to buy 
a burying-ground. Webs. 316-17. Mr. Cross was installed 
pastor of the united congregations, November 10, and Andrews 
preached on the occasion from 2 Cor. iv. 7. 

Mr. Cross was born near Balleykelley, Ireland, in 1689. 
He received both his academical and theological education in 
his native country, and came to America when he was not 
far from twenty-eight years of age. March 17, 1719, he was 

* MS. letter in Am. Antiq. Soc. Lib. 



APPENDIX VII. 389 

ordained and installed pastor of the church at New-Castle. In 
1723 he took charge of the church in Jamaica, L. I. The 
Rev. James M. Macdonald, subsequently a pastor of the same 
church, says : '< It is evident that he was very highly esteemed," 
and "was one of the most prominent and influential Ministers 
of the day in which he lived." He died in August, 1766. 
The following testimony to his character appears on his grave- 
stone. " He excelled in prudence and gravity, and a general 
deportment, was esteemed for his learned acquaintance with 
tiie Holy Scriptures, and long accounted one of the most re- 
spectable Ministers in the province." 



APPENDIX VII. 

SEPARATION OF THE BAPTISTS FROM THE PRESBYTERIANS 
IN PHILADELPHIA. 

Edwards, in his Materials towards a History of the Bap- 
tists in Pennsylvania, gives the following correspondence touch- 
ing this matter : — 

" To our dear and well-beloved friends and brethren, Mr. 
Jedediah Andrews, John Green, Joshuah Story, Samuel Rich- 
ardson, and the rest of the Presbyterian judgment belonging to 
the meeting in Philadelphia, the Church of Christ, over which 
John Watts is pastor, sends salutation of grace, mercy, and 
peace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Dearly beloved ! . . . We do freely confess and promise for 
ourselves, that we can and do own and allow of your approved 
Ministers who are fitly qualified and sound in the faith and of 
holy lives, to pray and preach in our assemblies. If you can 
also freely confess and promise for yourselves that you can and 
will own and allow of our approved Ministers, who are fitly 



390 APPENDIX VII. 

qualified and sound in the faith, and of holy lives, to preach 
and pray in your assemblies ; that so, each side, may own, 
embrace, and accept of one another as fellow-brethren and 
Ministers of Christ, and hold and maintain Christian commu- 
nion and fellowship. 

(Signed) John Watts, 

Samuel Jones, 
George Eaton, 
Thomas Bibb, 

Thomas Potts. 
30th of 8th month, 1698. 

To this letter the following reply was made : — 

To the Church of Christ, over which Mr. John Watts is pastor, we, whose 
names are undenvritten, do send salutation in the name of our Lord 

Jesus : 

Brethren and Well Beloved : For as much as some of 
you, in the name of the rest, have in a friendly manner sent 
us your desire of uniting and communing in the things of God, 
as far as we agree in judgment, that we may lovingly go together 
heavenward, we do gladly and gratefully receive your proposal, 
and return you thanks for the same, and bless God who hath 
put it in your minds to endeavor after peace and concord, earn- 
estly desiring that your request may have a good effect, which 
may be for the edification of us all, that we may the more 
freely perform mutual offices of "love one towards another" 
for our furtherance in Christianity. But that we may do what 
we do safely, and for our more effectual carrying on our fore- 
mentioned desire, we have thought it might be profitable for us 
all, and more conducive to our future love and unity, that we 
might have some friendly conference concerning those affairs 
before we give you a direct answer to your proposition, which 
we have confidence you will not deny. And in pursuance 
hereof we do request that some of you (who you think best) 



APPENDIX VIII. 391 

may meet with us, or some of us, at a time and place which 
you shall appoint, that what we agree upon may be done in 
order. 

Subscribed, in the name of the rest, Philadelphia, Novem- 
ber 3, 1698. 

Jededia-H Andrews, 
Samuel Richards, 
Herbert Corry, 
Daniel Green, 
John Green, 
David Giffing, 
John Van Lear. 

It was agreed to meet at the common meeting-house on the 
19th of November. But by a misunderstanding the conference 
did not meet. Mr. Andrews, when called upon by three of 
the Baptists, said, "he knew it not to be the day, but took it 
to be the second day after." The consequence was, the Bap- 
tists were offended, and subsequently remained apart. B. LVI., 
Web. 314. 



APPENDIX VIII. 

OLD LETTERS OF FRANCIS MAKEMIE. 

These letters are in the library of the Historical Society of 
Massachusetts. They were addressed to Increase Mather, of 
Boston, " clarum et venerahile nomen^''^ and from the light 
which they throw upon our Church History, will be read with 
interest by all who appreciate the rays of antiquity. 

Elizabeth River, Va., July 25th, 1684. 
Reverend and Dear Brother : I wrote to you, though 
unacquainted, by Mr. Lamb, from North Carolina, of my de- 
signs for Ashley River, South Carolina, which I was forward 



392 APPENDIX VIII. 

in attempting, that I engaged in a voyage and went to sea in 
the month of May, but God in his providence saw fit I should 
not see it at the time, for we were tossed upon the coast by 
contrary winds, and to the north as far as Delaware Bay, so 
that, falling short in our provisions, we were necessitated, after 
several essays to the south, to Virginia, and in the meanwhile 
Colonel Anthony Lawson, and other inhabitants of the parish of 
Lynnhaven, in Lower Norfolk County (who had a dissenting 
minister from Ireland, until the Lord was pleased to remove 
him by death in August last, among whom I preached before I 
went to the South, in coming from Maryland against their earnest 
importunity), coming so pertinently in the place of our landing 
for water, prevailed with me to stay this season, which the more 
easily overcame me, considering the season of the year and the 
little encouragement from Carolina, from the sure information 
I have had. But for the satisfaction of my friends in Ireland, 
whom I design to be very cautious in inviting to any place in 
America I have yet seen, I have sent one of our number to 
acquaint me further concerning the place. I am here assured 
of liberty and other encouragements, resolving to submit myself 
to the sovereign providence of God, who has been pleased so 
unexpectedly to drive me back to this poor desolate people, 
among whom I design to continue till God in his providence 
determines otherwise concerning me. 

I have presumed a second before I can hear how acceptable 
my first has been. I hope this will prevent your writing to 
Ashley River, and determine your resolution to direct your 
letters to Col. Anthony Lawson, at the eastern branch of 
Elizabeth River. I expect if you have an opportunity of 
writing to Mr. John Hart,* you will acquaint him concerning 
me, which, with your prayers, will oblige him who is your dear 
and affectionate brother in the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 

Francis Makemie. 

* The minister of Londonderry. 



APPENDIX VIII. 393 

Elizabeth River, 28th July, 1685. 
Honored Sir : Yours I received by Mr. Hallet, with three 
books, and am not a little concerned that those sent to Ashley 
River were miscarried, for which I hope it will give no offence 
to declare my willingness to satisfy, for there is no reason they 
should be lost to you, and far less that the gift should be 
. . . .* for which I own myself your debtor, and assure your- 
self, if you have any friend in Virginia, to find me ready to 
receive your commands. I have wrote to Mr. Wandrope and 
beg you would be pleased to order the safe conveyance thereof 
unto his hands. I have also wrote to Mr. Thomas Barret, a 
minister who lived in South Carolina, who, when he wrote to 
me from Ashley River, was to take shipping for New England, 
so that I conclude he is with you. But if there be no such man 
in the country, let my letter be returned. 

I am yours in the Lord Jesus, 

Francis Makemie. 

" These letters," says the Rev. Dr. Van Rensselaer (in whose 
Presbyterian Magazine they were published), "incidentally 
prove, or illustrate the following positions : — 

" 1. They assist in fixing the date of Francis Makemie's 
arrival in America. Hitherto the records of Accomac 
County, Va., furnished evidence of the earliest period in 
which he was certainly known to be in America. A record 
in the Accomac County Court shows that he was on the 
Eastern Shore of Virginia in 1690. It was surmised that 
he was in the country before, but how long before was left 
wholly to conjecture. Mr. Reed, in his history of the Pres- 
byterian Church of Ireland, informs us that Mr. Makemie 
was from the neighborhood of Ramelton, in the north of Ire- 
land ; that he was introduced to the Presbytery of Laggan a6 

* Illegible. 
26 



394 APPENDIX VIII. 

a candidate in 1680, and that he was licensed in 1681. The 
Presbyterial Minutes being deficient for several years, the pre- 
cise time of his ordination is unknown. In December, 1680, 
the records state that Col. Stevens, from Maryland, 'near Vir- 
ginia,' made application for a minister to settle in that part of 
the world. The probability is that Francis Makemie came to 
the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1682. His letter of 1684 
shows that he had been in the country some time, and had ob- 
tained considerable knowledge of it, as well as performed con- 
siderable ministerial work. 

" 2. These letters show that Presbyterian ministers had pre- 
ceded Francis Makemie in evangelical labors in this country, 
or at least were contemporaneous with him. 'A dissenting 
minister from Ireland' was laboring near Norfolk, Va., in 1683, 
and another minister on Ashley River, near Charleston, S. C. ; 
the former of whom was certainly a Presbyterian, and in all 
probability preceded Makemie. 

" 3. In the third place, the letters afford evidence of Make- 
mie's missionary spirit. He labored in 1683 on Elizabeth 
River before he * went to the South.' The ' South' was, doubt- 
less, in North Carolina, from whence he first wrote to Increase 
Mather, by ' Mr. Lamb, from North Carolina.' After laboring 
for a time in North Carolina, he returned to Elizabeth River, 
near Norfolk, and thence set sail for Ashley River, but was 
driven back by a storm. His great aim seems to have been to 
preach the gospel to the destitute, and to search out localities 
to which he could invite ministers from Ireland. There is in- 
ternal evidence that, with all his zeal, he was a prudent man." 



APPENDIX IX. 395 

APPENDIX IX. 

MAKEMIE'S NEW YORK SERMON. 

'' The Christian religion has so full, so complete, and so per- 
fect a Rule or Canon for its guide and direction that there is 
nothing deficient that is necessary for the Christian's counsel, 
and for advancing his accomplishment in every state and con- 
dition, in every station, capacity or relation men may be 
placed in of God in the world, whether for instructing blinded 
and dead sinners what glory and perfection they were originally 
created in, and wilfully forfeited and lost by Adam's apostasy, 
or for detecting the enormities and irregularities both of heart 
and life, as a clear looking-glass wherein we view both the 
inward and outward man. And it not only points out to sin- 
ners the true way of life and salvation, but most particularly 
instructs us how to think, how to speak, and how to act, both 
toward God and toward one another. And this is the Word of 
life, the Revelation of Heaven, the Rule and Test both of faith 
and life. 

" Lives are orderly or disorderly as they are guided and gov- 
erned by that Rule, or not conformed thereto. For every sin 
is nothing else but a transgression of the law, a violation or 
deviation from that Rule. And by this Rule our actions shall 
be detected and conversations judged and tried. It is termed 
from the Spirit of God a walking according to rule. Gal. vi. 16. 
It is called a walking in the law of the Lord. Ps. cxix. 1. It 
is called a taking heed to our ways according to God's W^ord. 
Ps. V. 9. And this rule and canon is tlie revealed will, law 
and mind of God, which is a clear, a perfect, universal and ex- 
tensive rule and canon, directing; us in the management of our 
very thoughts and intentions of our souls, beyond the power 
and virtue of all human laws. It is a bridle, and gives check 



396 APPENDIX X. 

to our unruly tongues and regulates our very words, without 
which all religion is judged vain. James i. 26. 

"How little regard is had hereunto by this licentious age 
who glory in oaths and curses, exercise their wits and parts in 
all obscenities, ribaldry and profaneness, mocking and ridicul- 
ing and hissing at all conversation anyway tending to the honor 
of God and edification of our neighbor, and even this by such 
as make no small pretence to religion and devotion ! 

"It is a rule and guide for our lives and actions, instructing 
and guiding all men how to demean themselves toward God, 
our neighbor and ourselves, both what we are to forbear and 
abstain from, and in doing our duty. Tit. ii. 11, 12: 'For 
the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all, 
teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we 
should live soberly, righteously and Godly in this present 
world.'" 



APPENDIX X. 

LOa COLLEOE. 

This was the first literary institution above common schools 
in the bounds of the Presbyterian Church in America. It 
was erected by the Rev. William Tennent, Sr., who, in 1726, 
became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Neshaminy, 
Bucks County, Pa., about twenty miles north of Philadelphia, 
and within a few steps of his own dwelling. 

The spirit in which the institution was established augured 
well for its future. In Ireland and Scotland the signs of prev- 
alent worldliness, foreshadowing a sad apostasy, were already 
apparent. In this country the primitive zeal of Makemie's 
compeers was already on the decline. Revivals of religion 
were nowhere heard of, and an orthodox creed and a decent 
external conduct were the only points on which inquiry was 



APPENDIX X. 397 

made when persons were admitted to the communion of the 
church. Vital piety had almost deserted the church. The 
substance of preaching was a ''dead orthodoxy," in which 
little emphasis was laid upon regeneration, a change of heart, 
or the terrors of the law against sin. With such a state of 
things Mr. Tennent had no sympathy. His warm evangelical 
spirit led him to strive with all his energies to effect a change. 
The young men who came under his influence in their course 
of education were inspirited to become his efficient allies. 

The humble edifice which was to acquire such an enviable 
notoriety was made of logs cut out of the woods, probably 
from the very spot where the house was erected. It has long 
since disappeared, so that although the site on which it stood 
is well known to many in the vicinity, yet there is no vestige 
of it remaining on the ground, and no appearance which would 
indicate that a house ever stood there. The site of the College 
is about a mile from that part of Neshaminy Creek where the 
Presbyterian Church has long stood. 

Notwithstanding the name College, as there is reason to be- 
lieve, was given to the building out of contempt by its enemies, 
in this as in many other things, it is evident that what is 
lightly esteemed among men is precious in the sight of the 
Lord. Though as poor a house as perhaps was ever erected 
for the purpose of giving a liberal education, it was, in a noble 
serise, a College, a fountain from which proceeded streams of 
blessings to the church. 

Dr. Archibald Alexander says : — 

"A venerable friend,* in conversing with the writer on 
the subject of the Log College, observed that this humble in- 
stitution was not only the germ of New Jersey College, but 
several other colleges, which have been useful to the church 
and state, and have risen to high estimation in the country, and 
mentioned Jefferson, Hampden-Sidney, and Washington Col- 

* Rev. Matthew Brown, D.D. 
26* 



398 APPENDIX X. 

lege in Virginia, all which were founded and taught originally 
by students from Princeton. And we need not stop here, for 
these in their turn have given rise to many other schools and 
colleges, where the same system of education and the same 
principles of religion are adopted. Thus we see how much 
good may arise from a small beginning. As the stately oak 
originated in a small acorn, so an obscure school in the midst 
of the forest becomes a nursery, from which proceed not only 
eminent men, but other and higher schools of learning, by 
which our country is enlightened and adorned. Let this fact 
encourage all who have it in tiieir power to institute good 
schools of useful and solid learning, and to be liberal in en- 
couraging and endowing academies and colleges, and aiding 
poor scholars who possess talents to acquire a liberal education. 
" If our free institutions are long preserved, it will be by 
the means, under Providence, of religion and learning. With- 
out the benign influence of knowledge and virtue, a free re- 
publican government cannot long exist; and without the influ- 
ence of religion and good education, men are not fit for such 
freedom as is now enjoyed under our free and happy govern- 
ment. The immigration of so many thousand foreigners into 
our country renders it doubly necessary to exert every nerve 
to diffuse knowledge and sound principles of religion among 
the people. Let us have public schools, supported by the state, 
normal schools for the education of teachers, and parochial 
schools, in which every denomination may inculcate that re- 
ligion which they believe to be founded in truth. Evangelical 
Christians need not contend about what shall be taught in 
schools, for if those truths in which they are all agreed shall 
be faithfully inculcated on our youth, there will not be any 
very glaring defect in the system of religious instruction. 
Those points in which they differ may be reserved for their 
consideration at a riper age. But let the Bible he the text-hook 
in every school, whether high or low .^" 



INDEX 



Alexander, Archibald, D.D. ,LL.D., 

183. 
Alison, Francis, D.D., 154. 
Allen, Richard H., D.D., 305. 
Alricks, Rev. W. P., 208. 
Anderson, Rev. James, 98. 
Andrews, Rev. Jedediah, 82. 
Andrews, Silas M., D.D., 226. 
Appeal to the churches in London, 

135. 
Appendix I., 370. 

" II., 882. 

'' III., 385. 

" IV., 385. 

" v., 386. 

" VI., 387. 

" VII., 389. 

" VIII., 391. 

" IX., 395. 

" X 396 
Arch Street Church, 310-312. 

Baker, Wm. M., D.D., 263. 
Baldwin, Matthias W., 273. 
Barnes, Rev. Albert, 219. 
Bayard, John, 265. 
Beadle, Elias R., D.D., 257. 
Beatty, Rev. Charles, 161. 
Bethany Church, 343. 
Bevan, Matthew, Esq., 271. 
Blackwood, Wm., D.D., LL.D., 323. 
Blair, Samuel, D.D., 160. 
Boardman, H. A., D.D., 234. 
Boudinot, Elias, LL.D., 285. 
Boyd, John, 84. 
Bradner, Rev. J., 103. 
Brainerd, Rev. John, 166. 
Brainerd, Thomas, D.D., 305. 
Bratton, Rev. Thomas, 100. 
Brown, John A., 290. 

Calvary Church, 865. 
Carolina, settlement in, 52. 



Cathcart, Robert, D.D. , 172. 
Central Church (African), 359. 
Chambers, John, D.D., 260. 
Chambers Church, 362. 
Cheeseman, Lewis, D.D., 308. 
Chester, William, D.D., 249. 
Church of the Atonement, 826. 
Church of the Evangel, 356. 
Clarke, Henry Steele, D.D., 251. 
Clinton St. Immanuel Church, 328. 
Cohanzy, 95. 

Coleman, Lyman, S.T.D., 254. 
Colwell, Stephen, Esq., 291. 
Conn, Rev. Hugh, 103. 
Cuyler, Cornelius C, D.D., 240. 

Dale, James W., D.D., 246. 
Davidson, Robert, D.D., 255. 
Davis, Rev. Samuel, 80. 
Delaware, churches in, 92, 94. 
Denton, Rev. Richard, 38, 
Dickinson, Jonathan, D.D., 153. 
Dickson, Hugh S., D.D., 252. 
Division of Presbytery, 105. 
Doctrinal basis of Presbytery, 123. 
Doughty, Rev. Francis, 42. - 
Duffield, George, D.D., 168. 
Dulles, John W., D.D., 259. 

Eagle Wing, 56. 

Early elders of the Presbytery, 85. 

Early Presbyterianism in Ameilca, 

37. 
Eastburn, Rev. Joseph, 182. 
Eckard, James R., D.D., 226. 
Elders, prominent, deceased, 265. 
Ely, Ezra Styles, D.D., 188. 
Emigrants arrive in New England, 

37-8. 
Emigrants from Scotland, 41. 
Emigration checked, 117. 
Engles, Joseph P., 272. 
Engles, Wm. M., D.D., 196. 



400 



INDEX. 



English emigrants, 118. 
Ewing, John, D.D., 162. 

First African Church, 357. 

First Church, Phila., 293. 

First Church, South wark, The, 377. 

Form of discipline adopted, 129. 

German immigrants, 120. 
Gibson, Wm. J., D.D., 228. 
Gillespie, Rev. George, 100. 
Grace Church, 354. 
Great Valley, Presbyterians in, 97. 
Green, Aslibel, D.D., 173. 
Greenwich St. Church, 348. 
Gregory, Caspar R., D.D., 248. 
Grier, Rev. Nathan, 171. 

Hall, John, D.D., 238. 
Hamill, Hugh, D.D., 211. 
Hampton, Rev. John, 78. 
Harrison, Sir Edmund, 145. 
Hart, John S., LL.D., 280. 
Henry, Alexander, Esq., 270. 
Henry, Rev. John, 99. 
Henr}^ T. Charlton, D.D., 190. 
Hill, Rev. Matthew, 43. 
Hodge, Charles, D.D., LL.D., 192. 
Hodge, Hugh L., M.D., 288. 
Hodge, H. Lenox, M.D., 276. 
Hollond Memorial Church, 374. 
Hope Church, 351. 
Hope, Matthew B., D.D., 242. 
Humphrey, Z. M., D.D., 260. 

Immigrants, grand motive of, 116. 
Irwin, Rev. Nathaniel, 169. 

Janeway, Jacob J., D.D., 179. 
Janvier, Rev. Levi, 237. 
Jones, Hon. Joel, 286. 
Jones, Joseph H., D.D., 198. 
Jones, Rev. Malachi, 102. 
Jones, Samuel B., D.D., 238. 
Junkin, David X., D.D., 239. 
Junkin, George, D.D., LL.D., 223. 

Keith, George, 82. 
Kennedy, Rev. John H., 206. 

Latta, James, D.D., 164. 
Latta, Wm., D.D, 177. 
Letter to Alexander Coldin, 134. 
Letter to Connecticut, 134. 



Letter to Dr. Tong, 143. 

Letter to the Presbytery of Dublin, 

137. 
Letter to the Synod of Glasgow, 

140, 143. 

Macalester, Charles, Esq., 275. 
Macklin, Alexander, D.D., 233. 
Makemie, Rev. Francis, arrival of, 

47-51. 
Makemie, Rev. Francis, sketch of, 

57, 61, 72. 
Mackie, Rev. Josias, 53. 
Macnish, Rev. George, 79. 
Mariners' Church, 341. 
Maryland, churches in, 90. 
McCalia, Rev. W. L., 202, 307. 
McCauley, Thomas, D.D., 217. 
McDowell, Wm. A., D.D., 241. 
McGill, Rev. Daniel, 101. 
McKinney, David, D.D., 197. 
Meeting-houses on the eastern shore 

of Maryland, 45. 
Milledoller, Philip, D.D., 304. 
Ministers, early Presbyterian, 55. 
Murray, Nicholas, D.D., 215. 

Neill, Wm., D.D., 191. 

New Jersey, settlement in, 94. 
Newkirk, Matthew, Esq., 278. 
New York, Presbyterians in, 55. 
Ninth Church, 320. 

Orr, Rev. Robert, 104. 
Our emigrant fathers, 87-9, 

Patterson, Rev. James, 187. 
Patterson, Robert, LL.D., 268. 
Philadelphia, Church in, 93. 
Philadelphia, Presbyterians in, 54. 
Pinney, John B., LL D., 231. 
Potomac, Presbyterians on, 54. 
Potts, George, D.D., 210, 306-7. 
Potts, W. S., D.D.,200. 
Powell, Rev. H., 101. 
Presbyterianism — 

Basis of Faith, 9. 

Order, 10. 

Government, 12. 

Unity, 12. 

Scriptural Origin, 14. 

Orthodoxy, 16. 

Moral influence, 18. 

Catholicity, 23. 



INDEX. 



401 



Presbyterianism — 

Zeal for the truth, 27. 

Education, 28. 

Civil liberty, 29. 

Great men's opinions of, 35-6. 
Presbyterians in Delaware and 

Virginia, 52. 
Presbytery, correspondence of, 134. 
Presbytery of Philadelphia — 

Choice of place for, 61. 

First meeting of, 62. 

Design of, 64. 

Character of first ministerial 
members, 65. 

Description of, 66. 

Meeting at Freehold, 67-70. 

Second meeting of, 70. 

Growth of, 90. 
Presbytery's relation to the Synod, 

147-51." 
Pumry, Rev. S., 104. 

Religious views of the founders of 

our Church, 86. 
Rittenhouse, David, LL.D., 284. 

Sanford, Rev. Joseph, 214. 
Scotch-Irish, 108-116. 
Scots Church, 331. 
Scovel, S., D.D.,208. 
Second Church, 296. 
Settlements in Virginia and Mary- 
land, 42. 
Sharswood, Hon. George, 281. 
Sixth Church, 313. 
Skinner, Thos. H. , D. D. , LL.D. , 186. 
Smith, John Blair, D.D., 176. 
South Church, 331. 



Southwestern Church, 360. 
Sproat, Dr. James, 168. 
Stevens, Col. Wm., 47. 
Synod of Phila., first meeting, 108. 

Tabernacle Church, 313-316. 
Tabor Church, 368. 
Taylor, Nathaniel, 84. 
Tennent, Rev. Gilbert, 155. 
Tennent, Rev. Wm., Sr., 152. 
Tenth Church, 324-5. 
Third Church, 300. 
Thomson, Rev. J., 105. 
Traill, Rev. William, 46. 

Union Church, 327-28. 

Van Vleck, Rev. P., 99. 

Wadsworth, Charles, D.D., 253, 312. 
Watson, James C, D.D., 212. 
Walnut St. Church, 364. 
Welsh immigrants, 120. 
West Spruce St. Church, 333. 
Westminister Church, 336. 
Wharton St. Church. 345. 
Williamson, Hugh, 'M.D., F.R.S., 

266. 
Wilson, James P., D.D., 180-2. 
Wilson, Rev. John, 81. 
Winchester, Rev. S. G., 217. 
Woodbridge Church, 96. 
Woodland Church, 370. 
Wotherspoon, Rev. R., 102. 
Wylie Memorial Church, 373. 

Yeomans, John W., D.D., 244. 



EOLL 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES 

IN CONNECTION WITH THE 

PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA, 
From 1706 to 1888. 

PREPARED BY 

The Rev. W. M. RICE, D.D., 

STATED CLERK. 



ROLL. 



No. 1. Francis Makemie. Original member. Ordained 1682 by 
the Pby. of Laggan. Died 1708. 

No. 2. John Hampton. Original member. Ordained 1706. In- 
stalled 1708, Pastor of Snow Hill. Pastoral relation dissolved by 
Synod of Phila. Sept. 18, 1718. Transferred Sept. 21, 1716, to form 
Pres. of Snow Hill. Died 1721. 

No. 3. George MoNish. Original member. Ordained 1705. In- 
stalled 1711, Pastor of Jamaica, Long Island. Transferred Sept. 
21, 1716, to form Pres. of Long Island. Died March 10, 1722. 

No. 4. Samuel Davis. Original member. Installed 1718, Pastor 
of Snow Hill. Transferred Sept. 21, 1716, to form Pres. of Snow 
Hill. Died 1725. 

No. 5. Nathaniel Taylor. Original member. Ordained 1690. 
Pastor of Upper Marlborough. Died 1710. 

No. 6. John "Wilson. Original member. Ordained 1702. Pastor 
of White Clay Creek. Died 1712. 

No. 7. Jedediah Andrews. Original member. Ordained 1701. 
Pastor of First Ch., Phila. Died 1747. 

No. 8. John Boyd. Parts of trial approved, Dec. 27, 1706. Or- 
dained Dec. 29, 1706. Pastor of Freehold, N. J. Died 1708. 

No. 9. Joseph Smith. Received May 19, 1708, Candidate. Or- 
dained 1708. Installed 1708, Pastor of Cohanzy, N. J., and in 1715, 
Middletown, N. J. Died Sept. 8, 1736. 

No. 10. John Henry. Received Sept. 20, 1710. Ordained by Pby. 
of Dublin 1709. Installed 1710, Pastor of Rehoboth. Transferred 
Sept. 21, 1716, to form Pres. of Snow Hill. Died before Sept. 1717. 

No. 11. James Anderson. Received Sept. 20, 1710. Ordained 
Nov. 17, 1708, by Irvine Pby. Pastor of New Castle. Transferred 
Sept. 21, 1716, to form Pres. of New Castle. Installed August, 
1727, Donegal Church. Died July 16, 1740. 

No. 12. Nathaniel Wade. Received Sept. 21, 1710. Ordained 
1708. Installed 1708. Pastor of Woodbridge, N. J. Pastoral rela- 
tion dissolved Sept. 26, 1711. 

No. 13. Paulus Van Vleck. Received Sept. 21, 1710. 

No. 14. Joseph Morgan. Received Sept. 21, 1710. Pastor of 
Freehold, N. J. 

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ROLL OF 

No. 15. David Evans. Received Sept. 22, 1710, Candidate. 
Licensed Sept. 27, 1711. Ordained Nov. 3, 1714. Installed Nov. 
3, 1714, Pastor of Welsh Tract. Pastoral relation dissolved April 
23, 1740. Transferred Sept. 21, 1716, to form Pres. of New Castle. 
Died Maj, 1743. 

No. 16. Thomas Bratton. Received Sept. 17, 1712. Died Oct. 
1712. 

No. 17. George Gillespie. Received Sept. 15, 1713, from Pby. of 
Glasgow. Ordained and installed by a committee of Pby. May 28, 
1713, Pastor of White Clay Creek. Died Jan. 2, 1760. 

No. 18. Robert Lawson. Received Sept, 15, 1713, from Pby. of 
Dumfries, Scotland. Died Nov. 1713. 

No. 19. Daniel Magill. Received Sept. 15, 1713. Pastor of 
Patuxent. Transferred Sept. 21, 1716, to form Pres. of New Castle. 
Died Feb. 10, 1724. 

No. 20. Howell Powell. Received Sept. 16, 1713. Installed Oct, 
15, 1714, Pastor of Cohanzy, N. J. Died 1717. 

No. 21. Robert Wotherspoon. Received Sept. 16, 1713. Or- 
dained May 13, 1714. Installed May 13, 1714, Pastor of Apo- 
quinimy. Died May, 1718. 

No. 22. John Bradner. Received and Licensed March, 1714, by 
committee; approved Sept. 8, 1714. Ordained May 6, 1715. In- 
stalled May 6, 1715, Pastor of Cape May, N. J. Removed to 
Goshen, N. Y., 1721. Died before Sept. 1733. 

No. 23. Malachi Jones. Received Sept. 9, 1714. Installed 1714, 
Pastor of Abington. Died Feb. 1729. 

No. 24. Hugh Conn. Received Sept. 21, 1715, as a licentiate. 
Ordained Oct. 21, 1715. Installed Oct. 21, 1715, Pastor of Patapsco, 
Md. Transferred Sept. 21, 1716, to form Pres. of New Castle. Died 
June 28, 1752. 

No. 25. Robert Orr. Received Sept. 21, 1715, as a licentiate. 
Ordained Oct. 20, 1715. Installed Oct. 21, 1715, Pastor of Maiden- 
head and Hopewell. Pastoral relation dissolved 1719. Died 1720. 

No. 26. Samuel Pumry. Received Sept. 23, 1715. Ordained 
Nov. 30, 1709, Pastor of Newtown, L. I. Transferred Sept. 21, 1716, 
to form Pres. of Long Island. Died June 30, 1744. 

No. 27. Samuel Gelston. Received Sept. 21, 1715. Ordained 
April 17, 1717. Died Oct. 22, 1782. 

No. 28. John Pierson. Ordained April 29, 1717. Installed April 
29, 1717, Pastor of Woodbridge, N. J. Released 1753. Died 
August 23, 1770. 

No. 29. "William Tennent. Received Sept. 17, 1718, by Synod 
of Phila. Installed 1721, Pastor of Bensalem and Smithfield. 
1726, Neshaminy. Died May 6, 1746. 

4 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

No. 30. John Thomson. Ordained April, 1717. Installed April 
1717, Pastor of Lewes, Del. 1730, Middle Octorara. ] 732, Chestnut 
Level. Died 1753. 

No. 31. Jonathan Dickinson. Received 1717. Ordained Sept. 

29, 1709, Pastor of Elizabethtown, N. J. First President, Nassau 
Hall, 1746. Died Oct. 7, 1747. 

No. 32. Gilbert Tennent. Licensed May, 1725. Ordained 1726- 
Installed 1726, Pastor of New Brunswick. Installed Pastor of 2d 
Church, Phila., May, 1743. Died July 23, 1764. 

No. 33. Francis Alison. Received 1752, from Pres. of New Castle. 
Ordained 1737. Died Nov. 28, 1779. D.D. 

No. 34. Richard Treat. Ordained Dec. 30, 1731. Installed Dec. 

30, 1731, Pastor of Abington. Died Nov. 20, 1778. 

No. 35. Ebenezer Gould. Received 1727. Pastor of Greenwich, 

N. J. Died 1778. 
No. 36. Daniel Elmer. Received 1728. Pastor of Fairfield, N. J. 

Died Jan. 14, 1755. 

No. 37. Eleazer "Wales. Received 1730. Pastor of Allows Town. 

Died 1749. 
No. 38. William Tennent, Jr. Ordained Oct. 25, 1733. Installed 

Oct. 25, 1733, Pastor of Freehold, N. J. Died March 8, 1777. 
No. 39. Samuel Blair. Licensed Nov. 9, 1733. Dismissed Sept. 

19, 1734, to Pres. of East Jersey. Died July 5, 1751. 
No. 40. John Tennent. Licensed Sept. 18, 1729. Ordained Nov. 

19, 1730. Installed Nov. 19, 1730, Pastor of Freehold, N. J. Died 

April 23, 1732. 
No. 41. Hugh Carlisle. Received June 29, 1736, from Pby. of 

New Castle. Pastor of Newton, Plumsted. Amwell, Bethlehem. 

Dismissed March 14, 1738, to Pres. of Lewes. 
No. 42. Charles Tennent. Received June 30, ] 736. Licensed 

Sept. 20, 1736. Ordained by Pby. of Newcastle, 1737. Died Feb. 

25, 1771. 
No. 43. John Guild. Received April 6, 1737. Licensed Sept. 9, 

1737. Ordained Nov. 11, 1741. Installed Nov. 11, 1741, Pastor of 

Hopewell. Dismissed June 3, 1758, to Pby. of New Brunswick. 

Died July 10, 1787. 
No. 44. Robert Cross. Received May 30, 1737, by direction of 

Synod. Installed Nov. 10, 1737, Pastor of First Church, Phila. 

Pastoral relation dissolved June 22, 1758. Died Aug. 9, 1766. 
No. 45. Francis McHenry. Received Nov. 10, 1737. From Pby. 

Monaghan. Ordained Sept. 18, 1739. Installed Sept. 1743, Pastor 

of Neshaminy and Deep Run. Died 1757. 
No. 46. John Nutman. Licensed 1730. Ordained 1730, Pastor of 

Hanover, N. J. Pastoral relation dissolved 1745. Died Sept. 1, 

1751. 

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BOLL OF 

No. 47. Samuel Hemphill. Received Sept. 1734. Suspended by 
Synod, Sept. 22, 1735. 

No. 48. Benjamin Chestnut. Received 1756. Ordained Sept. 3, 
1751, Pastor of Cliarlestown and New Providence. Pastoral rela- 
tion with Charlestown dissolved Nov. 3, 1763 ; with New Providence 
April 8, 1767. Died July 21, 1775. 

No. 49. Henry Martin. Received June 20, 1753, from Pby. of New 
Castle. Ordained April 10, 1754. Installed April 10, 1754, Pastor 
of Newton and Solesbury. Released from Solesbury Oct. 5, 1757. 
Died 1764.* 

No. 50. Charles Beatty. Licensed Oct. 13, 1742. Ordained Dec. 
14, 1743. Installed Dec. 14, 1743, Pastor of Neshaminy. Died 
Aug. 13, 1772. 

No. 51. Nehemiah G-reenman. Received May 16, 1753, from Pby. 
of New York. Ordained Dec. 5, 1753. Installed Dec. 5, 1753, 
Pastor of Pilesgrove. Pastoral relation dissolved April 9, 1779 
Died 1779. 

No. 52. Andre-w Hunter. Ordained Sept. 4, 1746. Installed Sept. 
4, 1746, Pastor of Grreeuwich and Deerfield. Pastoral relation dis- 
solved July 23, 1760. Died July 28, 1775. 

No. 53. "William Ramsey. Received May 11, 1756, from Fairfield 
County Asso., Conn. Ordained Dec. 1, 1756. Installed Dec. 1, 
1756, Pastor of Fairfield, J^. J. Died Nov. 5, 1771. 

No. 54. Daniel La-wrence. Licensed May 28, 1745. Ordained 
April 2, 1747. Installed June, 1747, Pastor of Forks of Delaware. 
Released May 25, 1752. Removed to Cape May, June 20, 1754. 
Died April 30, 1766. 

No. 55. John Griffith. Received May 31, 1758, by direction of 
Synod. Ordained May 31, 1758. Died before Nov. 1770. 

No. 56. Hamilton Bell. Received June 3, 1740, as a candidate. 
Licensed Sept. 30, 1740. Dismissed Oct. 27, 1741, to Pyb. of Donegal. 

No. 57. Harry Munro. Received May 13, 1759, as a minister from 
Oreat Britain. 

No. 58. David Cowell. Ordained Nov. 3, 1736. Installed Nov. 
3, 1736, Pastor of Trenton, N. J. Dismissed June 3, 1758, to Pby. 
of New Brunswick. Died Dec. 1, 1760. 

No. 59. Samuel Evans. Received Sept. 30, 1740, as a candidate. 
Licensed Jan. 8, 1741. Ordained May 5, 1742. Installed May 5, 
1742, Pastor of Great Valley. Pastoral relation dissolved 1747. 
Dismissed May 23, 1751. Disowned by Synod. 

No. 60. John Ewing. Received Oct. 23, 1759, from Pres. of New 
Castle. Installed Oct. 24, 1759, Pastor of First Church, Phila. 
Died Sept. 8, 1802. D.D. 

No. 61. James Latta. Licensed Feb. 15, 1758. Ordained Oct. 24, 
1759. Installed August 25, 1761, Pastor of Deep Run. Pastoral 
relation dissolved April 10, 1770. Dismissed 1771, to Pby. of New 
Castle. Died Jan. 29. 1801. 

6 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

No. 62. Joseph Montgomery. Received May 16, 1759, as a can- 
didate. Licensed May 15, 17G0. Dismissed May 27, 1761. 

No. 63. John Beard. Received Oct. 23, 1759, as a candidate. 
Licensed Aug. 22, 1760. Ordained April 16, 1761. Dismissed May 
27, 1761, without naming Pby. 

No. 64. John Simonton. Received May 15, 1759, as a licentiate. 
Ordained April 16, 1761. Installed April 16, 1761, Pastor of Great 
Valley. 

No. 65. John Clark. Received August ] 3, 1761, from ^^7- of New 
Brunswick. Installed Oct. 13, 1762, Pastor of Forks of Delaware. 
Pastoral relation dissolved Nov. 4, 1767. Dismissed July 26, 1770, 
to any Presbytery. 

No. 66. Samuel Maga-w. Received May 13, 1760, as a candidate. 
Licensed August 14, 1761. 

No. 67. John Brainerd. Received April 6, 1762, from Pby. of New 
York. Ordained 1748. Died March 24, 1781. 

No. 68. John Murray. Received May 13, 1765, from Pby. of New 
York. Installed May 28, 1765, Pastor of 2d Church, Phila. Sus- 
pended June 18, 1766. Dismissed April 9, 1767. Died March 13, 
1793. 

No. 69. Simon "Williams. Received May 14, 1765, from Pres. New 
Brunswick. Ordained May 28, 1765. 

No. 70. Enoch Green. Received May 25, 1767, from Pres. of New 
Brunswick. Installed June 11, 1767, Pastor of Deerfield. Died 
Dec. 1776. 

No. 71. Alexander Mitchell. Received May 24, 1768, from Pres. 
of New Brunswick. Ordained Nov. 23, 1768. Installed Nov. 23, 
176S, Pastor of Tinicum and Solesbury. Released May 23, 1783. 
Dismissed May 18, 1785, to Pby. of New Castle. 

No. 72. James Boyd. Received March 29, 1769, from Pres. of New 
Castle. Ordained May 30, 1769. Installed May 30, 1769, Pastor of 
Newtown and Bensalem. Died Feb. 5, 1814. 

No. 73. James Sproat. Received March 29, 1769, from Guilford 
Cong. Ch. Ordained August 23, 1743. Installed March 30, 1769, 
Pastor of Second Ch., Phila. Died Oct. 18, 1793. D.D. 

No. 74. James Watt, Received Nov. 9, 1769, from Pby. of Lewes. 
Ordained April 23, 1770. Installed May 12, 1770, Pastor of Cape 
May. Died Nov. 19, 1789. 

No. 75. Daniel McCalla. Received Nov. 6, 1771, as a candidate. 
Licensed July 19, 1772. Ordained Nov. 17, 1774. Installed Nov. 
17, 1774, Pastor of Norriton, New Providence, and Charlestown. 
Pastoral relation dissolved March 6, 1783. Dismissed about 1788. 
Removed to South Carolina. Died May, 1809. 

No. 76. "William Hollinshead. Received Nov. 6, 1771, as a can- 
didate. Licensed July 19, 1772. Ordained July 29, 1773. Installed 

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July 29, 1773, Pastor of Fairfield. Pastoral relation dissolved July 
15, 1783. Dismissed July 15, 1783, to Cong. Association of South 
Carolina. 

No. 77. Samuel Eakin. Received May 21, 1773, from Pby. of New- 
Castle. Dismissed May 24, 1776, to Pby. of New Castle. 

No. 78. George DufBeld. Received July 28, 1773, and annexed to 
Pby. with Tliird Ch. by Act of Synod. Licensed March 11, 1756, by 
Pby. of New Castle. Ordained Sept. 25, 1761, by Pby. of Carlisle. 
Pastor of Third Ch., Phila. Died Feb. 2, 1790. D.D. 

No. 79. Nathaniel Erwin. Received May 20, 1774, from Pby. of 
New Castle. Ordained Nov. 3, 1774. Installed Nov. 3, 1774, Pastor 
of Neshaminy. Died March 3, 1812. 

No. 80. Israel Evans. Received Nov. 4, 1773, as a candidate. 
Licensed August 2, 1774. Ordained August 16, 1775. Dismissed 
Oct. 17, 1786, to take charge of a church in Weymouth, Mass. 

No. 81. Robert Keith. Received Nov. 4, 1773, as a candidate. 
Licensed August 2, 1774. Ordained August 21, 1776. Died, re- 
ported May 17, 1785. 

No. 82. Andre"w Hunter, Jr. Received April 6, 1774, as a candi- 
date. Licensed June 21, 1774. Ordained May 20, 1779. Dismissed 
April 19, 1797, to Pby. of New Brunswick. 

No. 83. James Greer. Received April 5, 1775, as a candidate. 
Licensed May 31, 1775. Ordained June 18, 1777. Installed June 
18, 1777, Pastor of Deep Run. Died Nov. 19, 1791. 

No. 84. William Linn. Received May 2, 1776, from Pby. of Done- 
gal. Ordained May 2, 1776. Dismissed May 22, 1777, to Pby. of 
Donegal. 

No. 85. Isaac Keith. Received April 8, 1778. Candidate. Licensed 
Nov. 4, 1778. Ordained May 30, 1780. Dismissed May 30, 1780, 
to Pby. of Donegal. 

No. 86. William Schenck. Received April 4, 1780, from Pres. of 
New Brunswick. Installed May, 1780, Pastor of Pittsgrove. Dis- 
missed Oct. 1786, to Pby. of New York. 

No. 87. Hugh Brackenridge. Received Nov. 6, 1776, as a candi- 
date. Licensed June 18, 1777. License resigned April 7, 1789. 

No. 88. Philip V. Fithian. Received May 18, 1774. Candidate. 
Died Oct. 8, 1776. 

No. 89. George Faitoute. Received Oct. 17, 1781, from Pby. of 
New Brunswick. Ordained 1779. Installed April 8, 1782, Pastor 
of Greenwich, N. J. Pastoral relation dissolved June 16, 1789. 
Dismissed June 16, 1789, to Pby. of Suffolk. 

No. 90. William M. Tennent. Received May 15, 1782, from 
Consociation of Western District, Fairfield County, Connecticut. 
Ordained 1772. Installed Nov. 19, 1782, Pastor of Abington, Nor- 
riton. Providence. Pastoral relation dissolved April 16, 1806, 
Norriton, Providence. Died Dec. 3, 1810. 

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No. 91. Samuel Blair (2). Received Oct. 15, 1782, by direction of 
Synod. Ordained 1766. Died Sept. 24, 1818. 

No. 92. Francis Peppard. Received May 23, 1783, from Pby. of 
New Brunswick. Ordained 1765. Installed Oct. 13, 1783, Pastor 
of AUenstown. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 22, 1794. Dismissed 
April 22, 1795, to Pby. of New Brunswick. 

No. 93. Simeon Hyde. Received March 6, 1783, from North Asso. 
Hartford, Conn. Ordained Jui^ 25, 1783. Installed June 25, 1783, 
Pastor of Deerfield. Died .July, 1783. 

No. 94. William McKee. Received May 18, 1785, from Pby. of 
Belfast, Ireland. Dismissed May 22, 1787, to Pby. of Lewes. 

No. 95. John Johnson. Received Oct. 18, 1785, from Pby. of Bel- 
fast, Ireland. Dismissed May 22, 1787, to Pby. of Carlisle. 

No. 96. James Snodgrass. Received May 17, 1785, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Dec. 13, 1785. Dismissed July 10, 1789, to Pby. 
of Carlisle. 

No. 97. Nathan Greer. ^ Received Aug. 2, 1785, as a candidate. 
Licensed Dec. 17, 1785. 'Dismissed April 9, 1787, to Pby. of New 
Castle. Ordained and installed Pastor Forks of Brandywine, 1787. 
Died March 31, 1814 

No. 98. William Pickles. Received May 18, 1786, as a foreign 
probationer. Ordained July, 1777. Installed 1786, Pastor of 
Deerfield. Pastoral relation dissolved Nov. 24, 1787. 

No. 99. Nathaniel R. Snowden. Received May 19, 1790, as a 
candidate. Licensed Oct. 19, 1791. Dismissed 1793, to Pby. of 
Carlisle. Received April 21, 1814, from Pby. of New Castle. Dis- 
missed Oct. 21, 1817, to Pby. of Carlisle. 

No. 100. Gilbert Tennent Snowden. Received Oct. 20, 1789, as 
a candidate. Licensed July 7, 1790. Dismissed Oct. 19, 1790, to 
Pby. of New Brunswick. 

No. 101. Isaac Foster. Received Oct. 20, 1790, from Cong. Ch., 
Mass. Ordained July, 1787. Installed April 26, 1791, Pastor of 
Pittsgrove. Died June 18, 1794. 

No. 102. Robert Cathcart. Received Oct. 20, 1790, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of Route, Ireland. Dismissed 1793, to Pby. of Carlisle. 
Installed 1793 over churches of York and Hopewell. Died Oct. 19, 
1849. D.D. 

No. 103. Adam Ramsay. Received Oct. 20, 1790, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of Route, Ireland. Dismissed April 20, 1791, to Pby. of 
New Brunswick. 

No. 104. Nathaniel Harris. Received April 23, 1789, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 23, 1790. Ordained June 14, 1797. Installed 
June 14, 1797, Pastor of Penn's Neck and AUoway's Creek. Pas- 
toral relation dissolved April 23, 1801. Dismissed April 23, 1801, to 
Pby. of New Brunswick. 

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No. 105. Abijah Davis. Received May 20, 1789, as a candidate. 

Licensed Oct. 23, 1790. Ordained Dec. 1, 1791. Installed Dec. 1, 

1791, Pastor of Cape May. Pastoral relation dissolved May 4, 1800. 

Dismissed April 22, 1807, to Pby. of Washington. April 18, 1811, 

declared a member, not having used certificate. Died Aug. 7, 1817. 
No. 106. Ethan Osborn. Received April 22, 1789, as a licentiate 

from South Asso. of Hartford, Conn. Ordained Dec. 3, 1789. 

Installed Dec. 3, 1789, Pastor ol^^Fairfield, N. J. Transferred Oct. 

21, 1839, to form Pby. of West Jersey. 

No. 107. John Gemmell. Received Oct. 17, 1786, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 23, 1789. Ordained Nov. 3, 1791. Installed Nov. 
3, 1791, Pastor of Great Valley, Charlestown, and West Chester. 
Released from West Chester Sept. 1, 1795. From Charlestown and 
Great Valley May 15, 1798. Dismissed May 15, 1798, to Cong. 
Asso. of New Haven. 

No. 108. James Carson. Received April 21, 1790, as a candidate. 
Dismissed April 21, 1791. Withdrew. 

No. 109. Ashbel Green. Received April 9, 1787, from Pby. of 
New Brunswick. Ordained May 15, 1787. Installed May 15, 1787, 
Pastor of Second Ch., Phila. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 20, 
1812. Dismissed Oct. 20, 1812, to Pby. of New Brunswick. President 
of Princeton College, 1812-1822. Received April 15, 1823, from Pby. 
of New Brunswick. Died May 19, 1848. D.D. 

No. 110. John Blair Smith. Received Dec. 21, 1791, from Pby. of 
Hanover. Licensed April 29, 1778. Ordained Oct. 20, 1779. In- 
stalled Dec. 22, 1791, Pastor of Third Ch., Phila. Pastoral relation 
dissolved Oct. 14, 1795. Dismissed Oct. 14, 1795, to Pres. of Albany. 
Received June 11, 1799, from Pby. of Albany. Installed June 27, 
1799, Pastor of Third Ch., Phila. Died Aug. 22, 1799. D.D. 

No. 111. Uriah Dubois. Received April 18, 1792, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 20, 1796. Ordained Oct. 10, 1798. Installed Oct. 10, 
1798. Pastor of Deep Run and Tinicum. Pastoral relation dissolved 
Aprii 19, 1810. Died Sept. 11, 1821. 

No. 112. George "Whitefield Cowles. Received Oct. 19, 1792, 
as a licentiate from South Asso. of Hartford, Conn. 

No. 113. "William Clarkson. Received April 16, 1793, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 16, 1794. Ordained Nov. 14, 1794. In- 
stalled Nov. 14, 1794, Pastor of Oreenwich and Bridgeton. Pastoral 
relation dissolved Oct. 20, 1801. Dismissed Oct. 20, 1801, to Pby, 
of Albany. 

No. 114. Samuel Laycock. Received Nov. 13, 1794, from Lanca- 
shire Asso. (Indepeiident), Eng. Installed Aug. 12, 1795, Pastor 
of Pittsgrove. Pastoral relation dissolved May 15, 1798. Dismissed 
Oct. 17, 1799, to Pby. of New Castle. 

No. 115. Michael Arthur. Received Aug. 15, 1794, from Pby. of 
Edinburgh Synod of Relief. Dismissed April 20, 1796, to Pby. of 
Lexington. 

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No. 116. John N. Abeel. Received Oct. 22, 1794, as a licentiate 

. from Classis of N. Y. Ref. Dutch Ch. Ordained Nov. 18, 1794. 
Installed Oct. 18, 1794, Pastor of Third Ch. Pastoral relation dis- 
solved Sept. 1, 1795. Dismissed Sept. 1, 1795, to Classis of N. Y. 
Reformed Dutch Ch. 

No. 117. William Arthur. Received April 22, 1795, from Asso- 
ciate Ref. Pby. of New York. Dismissed Sept. 1, 1795, to Pby. of 
New Castle. 

No. 118. John Davenport. Received Aug. 11, 1795, from Pby. of 
Long Island. Installed Aug. 12, 1795, Pastor of Deerfield. Pas- 
toral relation dissolved Oct. 15, 1805. Dismissed Oct. 21, 1807, to 
Pby. of Oneida. 

No. 119. Evan Jones. Received Oct. 14, 1795. 

No. 120. Thomas Picton. Received Oct. 19, 1796, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 18, 1798. Ordained June 13, 1799. Installed Oct. 
18, 1 799, Pastor of Woodbury and Timber Creek. Pastoral relation 
dissolved Nov. 12, 1804. Dismissed April 18, 1805, to Pby. of New 
York. 

No. 121. Robert Russell. Received Dec. 1797, from Pby. of New 
Castle. Ordained April 18, 1798. Installed April 18, 1798, Pastor 
of Allen's Township. Transferred June 27, 1820, with his church, 
to Pby. of Newton. 

No. 122. William Latta. Received April 16, 1799, from Pby. of 
New Castle. Ordained June 13, 1799. Installed Oct. 1, 1799, Pas- 
tor of Great Valley and Charlestown. Died Feb. 19, 1847. D.D. 

No. 123. Jacob J. Jane"way. Received April 17, 1799, from Classis 
of New York. Ordained June 13, 1799. Installed June 13, 1799, 
Pastor of Second Ch., Phila. Pastoral relation dissolved July 9, 
1828. Dismissed April 22, 1830, to Classis of New Brunswick. Died 
June 27, 1858. D.D. 

No. 124. John Jones. Received April 4, 1799, as a candidate. 
Licensed May 23, 1801. Ordained Dec. 9, 1807. Dismissed April 
21, 1824, to Pby. of Winchester. 

No. 125. Buckley Carl. Received June 11, 1799, from Pby. of 
Long Island. Ordained June 13, 1799. Installed Oct. 16, 1799, 
Pastor of Pittsgrove. Pastoral relation dissolved 1802. Transferred 
Oct. 21, 1839, to form Pby. of West Jersey. Died May 22, 1849. 

No. 126. John Blair Linn. Received June 11, 1799, from Classis 
of New York. Ordained June 13, 1799. Installed June 27, 1799, 
Pastor of First Ch., Phila. Died Aug. 30, 1804. 

No. 127. David Edwards. Received Oct. 22, 1800, from Protestant 
Dissenters, South Wales. Ordained June 15, 1802. Installed 
June 15, 1802, Pastor of Penn's Neck. Pastoral relation dissolved 
Dec. 13, 1803. Died Dec. 20, 1813. 

No. 128. Philip Milledoler. Received April 21, 1801, from Classis 
of New York. Installed April 23, 1801, Pastor of Third Ch., Phila. 
Pastoral relation dissolved Sept. 4, 1805. Dismissed Sept. 4, 1805, 
to Pby. of New York. 

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No. 129. Nathaniel Todd. Received April 20, 1802, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 13, 1803. Dismissed Oct. 15, 1805, to Pby. of 
Albany. Received Oct. 1808, from Pby. of Albany. Installed May 
12, 1809, Pastor of Woodbury. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 18, 
1815. Dismissed April 17, 1823, to Pby. of Carlisle. 

No. 130. John M. Bradford. Received April 20, 1802, as a can- 
didate. Licensed Oct. 13, 1803. Dismissed July 2, 1805, to Classis 
of Albany. 

No. 131. Joseph Brewster. Received Dec. 13, 1803, as a candi- 
date. 

No. 132. Jonathan Freeman. Received May 14, 1805, from Pby. 
of Hudson. Installed Oct. 15, 1805, Pastor of Greenwich, and 
Bridgeton. Died Nov. 17, 1822. 

No. 133. Joseph Eastburn. Licensed May 14, 1805. Missionary 
to Mariners. Died Jan. 30, 1828. 

No. 134. George C. Potts. Received April 16, 1800, as a licen- 
tiate from Pby. of New Castle. Ordained May 22, 1800. Installed 
May 22, 1800, Pastor of Fourth Ch., Phila. Pastoral relation dis- 
solved Sept. 9, 1835. Died Sept. 23, 1838. 

No. 135. John Clark. Received April 15, 1806, from Pby. of Hud- 
son. Installed May 7, 1806, Pastor of Pittsgrove. Pastoral relation 
dissolved April 21, 1808. Dismissed April 21, 1808, to Pby. of 
Hudson. 

No. 136. Robert Reid. Received April 15, 1806, from Pby. of 
Monegan, Ireland. 

No. 137. James P. Wilson. Received May 12, 1806, from Pby. of 
Lewes. Installed June, 1806, Pastor of First Ch., Phila. Pastoral 
relation dissolved April 20, 1830. Died Dec. 9, 1830. D.D. 

No. 138. Archibald Alexander. Received April 21, 1807, from 
Pby. of Hanover. Installed May 20, 1807, Pastor of Third Ch., 
Phila. Pastoral relation dissolved July 22, 1812. Dismissed July 
22, 1812, to Pby. of New BrunsMdck. Professor of Princeton Theo- 

. logical Seminary. Died Oct. 21, 1851. D.D. 

No. 139. Nathaniel Reeve. Received May 17, 1808, from Pby. of 
Long Island. Installed Oct. 20, 1808, Pastor of Deerfield. Pastoral 
relation dissolved April 15, 1817. Dismissed April 17, 1817, to Pby. 
of Long Island. 

No. 140. John "W. Doak. Received April 20, 1809, from Pby. of 
Abingdon. Installed July 8, 1809, Pastor of Frankford. Pastoral 
relation dissolved August 28, 1816. Dismissed Oct. 17, 1816, to 
Pby. of Abingdon. Died Oct. 1820. 

No. 141. Samuel W. Doak. Received Oct. 18, 1809, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of Abingdon. Dismissed Dec. 7, 1813, to Pby. of Abing- 
don. 

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No. 142. Thomas Dunn. Received Oct. 17, 1810, from Baptist Ch. 
Ordained June 18, 1811. Installed May, 1813, Pastor of German- 
town. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 18, 1815. Installed May 5, 
1817, Pastor of Solesbury. Pastoral relation dissolved April 19, 
1820. 

No. 143. John Gloucester. Received April 16, 1811, from Pby. 
of Union. Installed Pastor of First Afr. Ch. Died May 2, 1822. 

No. 144. George Duffield. Received April 22, 1812, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 19, 1815. Dismissed Dec. 12, 1815, to Pby. 
of Carlisle. D.D. 

No. 145. James K. Burch. Received May 18, 1811, from Pby. of 
Orange. Installed July 18, 1813, Pastor of Fifth Ch., Phila. Pas- 
toral relation dissolved Nov. 5, 1816. Dismissed April 17, 1817, to 
Pby. of Hanover or Orange. Received June 8, 1819, from Pby. of 
Hanover. Probably dismissed April, 1828, to Pby. of Ebenezer. 

No. 146, George W. Janvier. Received Oct. L5, 1811, from Pby. 
of New Castle. Ordained May 13, 1812. Installed May 13, 1812, 
Pastor of Pittsgrove. Transferred Oct. 1839, to form Pby. of West 
Jersey. 

No. 147. Samuel B. Hovre. Received April 22, 1812, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 22, 1813. Ordained Nov. 9, 1815. Installed 
Nov. 9, 1815, Pastor of Solesbury. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 
15, 1816. Dismissed Oct. 15, 1816, to Pby. of New Brunswick. 
Received April 22, 1829, from Classis of New York. Dismissed Oct. 
19, 1830, to Pby. of Carlisle. D.D. 

No. 148. William Dunlap. Received May 12, 1812, from Pby. of 
New Brunswick. Ordained July 21, 1812. Installed July 21, 1812, 
Pastor of Abington. Died Dec. 19, 1818. 

No. 149. Robert B. Belville. Received April 20, 1813, from Pby. 
of New Castle. Ordained Oct. 20, 1813. Installed Oct. 20, 1813, 
Pastor of Neshaminy. Transferred Oct. 31, 1833, by Synod to form 
Second Pby. of Phila. 

No. 150. Isaac A. Ogden. Received July 21, 1806, as a candidate. 
Dismissed Nov. 16, 1813, to Pby. of Carlisle. Received Oct. 21, 
1817, as a licentiate from Pby. of Carlisle. Ordained Nov. 12, 1817. 
Installed Nov. 12, 1817, Pastor of Cape May. Pastoral relation 
dissolved April 20, 1825. Dismissed April 19, 1826, to Pby. of Cin- 
cinnati. 

No. 151. Joseph Barr. Received April 20, 1813, from Pby. of New 
Castle. Ordained Oct. 20, 1813. Installed Nov. 11, 1813, Pastor 
of Norriton and Providence. Pastoral relation dissolved March 12, 
1822. Dismissed March 12, 1822, to Pby. of New Castle. 

No. 152. John Joyce. Received April 21, 1813, from Independent 
Tabernacle. Dismissed Oct. 17, 1816, to Pby. of Harmony. 

No. 153. Thomas H. Skinner. Received May 18, 1813, as a licen- 
tiate from Pby. of Jersey. Ordained June 23, 1813. Installed June 

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23, 1813, Pastor of Second Ch., Phila. Pastoral relation dissolved 
Nov. 5, 1816. Installed Dec. 1, 1816, Pastor of Fiftli Ch., Phila. 
Pastoral relation dissolved May 5, 1828. Dismissed May 5, 1828, to 
General Association of Massachusetts. Received Oct. 21, 1828, from 
Suffolk Association, Mass. Installed Oct. 26, 1828, Pastor of Fifth 
Ch., Phila. Transferred May 26, 1832, to form Second Pby. of 
Phila. Died Feb. 1, 1871. D.D., LL.D. 

No. 154. John Rumkle. Received May 18, 1813, from German 
Ref. Synod. Dismissed April 15, 1817, to Ger. Ref. Synod. 

No. 155. James Patterson. Received Nov. 16, 1813, from Pby. of 
New Brunswick. Ordained Aug. 9, 1809, by Pby. of New Bruns- 
wick. Installed Jan. 11, 1814, Pastor of First Ch., Northern Lib- 
erties. Transferred May 26, 1832, to form Second Pby. of Phila. 
Died Nov. 17, 1837. 

No. 156. Ezra Stiles Ely. Received July 26, 1814, from Pby. of 
New York. Installed Sept. 7, 1814, Pastor of Third Ch., Phila. 
Transferred May 26, 1832, to form Second Pby. of Phila. Died 
June 17, 1861. D.D. 

No. 157. Thomas Charlton Henry. Received Oct. 18, 1814, as a 
candidate. Licensed April 17, 1816. Dismissed Jan. 8, 1818, to 
Pby. of West Lexington. Died Oct. 4, 1827. D.D. 

No. 158. James Joyce. Received Oct. 18, 1814, from Pby. of 
Oneida. Installed Nov. 11, 1814, Pastor of Newtown. 

No. 159. Timothy Harrison. Received Jan. 21, 1815, as a candi- 
date. 

No. 160. Nicholas Patterson. Received Oct. 18, 1815, as a can- 
date. Licensed Oct. 22, 1817. Dismissed April 19, 1820, to Pby. 
of Baltimore. 

No. 161. Thomas J. Biggs. Received Oct. 18, 1815, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 22, 1817. Ordained Nov. 10, 1818. Installed 
Nov. 10, 1818, Pastor of Frankford. Pastoral relation dissolved 
Oct. 20, 1831. Dismissed Oct. 21, 1831, to Pby. of Cincinnati. Died 
Feb. 9, 1864. D.D. 

No. 162. John "W*. Campbell. Received Oct. 18, 1815, as a can- 
didate. Dismissed Nov. 5, 1816, to Pby. of Hanover. 

No. 163. George Chandler. Received Oct. 18, 1815, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of Hudson. Ordained Nov. 15, 1815. Installed Nov. 15, 
1815, Pastor of First Ch., Kensington. Transferred May 26, 1832, 
to form Second Pby. of Phila. Died June 19, 1878. 

No. 164. Samuel Hanson Cox. Received Oct. 18, 1815, as a can- 
didate. Dismissed May 17, 1816, to Pby. of New York. Died Oct. 
2, 1880. D.D. 

No. 165. Calvin Foot. Received Nov. 14, 1815, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 17, 1817. Dismissed April 17, 1822. 

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No. 166. William Rafferty. Received May 17, 1816, from Pby. of 
Hudson. Installed June 25, 1816, Pastor of Woodbury and Timber 
Creek. Pastoral relation dissolved April 22, 1819. Dismissed April 
19, 1820, and "withdrawn to Prot. Epis. Ch." 

No. 167. "William Neill. Received Oct. 15, 1816, from Pby. of 
Albany. Installed Nov. 7, 1816, Pastor of Sixth Ch. Pastoral re- 
lation dissolved August 24, 1824. Dismissed Nov. 10, 1824, to Pby. 
of Carlisle. Received Oct. 19, 1830, from Pby. of Carlisle. Trans- 
ferred Nov. 1, 1833, by Synod to form Second Pby. of Phila. Died 
1860. D.D. 

No. 168. James Dunlap. Received April 15, 1817, from Pby. of 
Redstone. Died Nov. 23, 1818. 

No. 169. Charles Hodge. Received Oct. 21, 1817, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 21, 1819. Dismissed June 27, 1820, to Pby. of New 
Brunswick. Ordained Nov. 28, 1821. Professor Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary. Died June 19, 1878. D.D., LL.D. 

No. 170. Samuel Cornish. Received Oct. 21, 1817, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 21. 1819. Dismissed March 16, 1822, to Pby. of New 
York. 

No. 171. Alexander Boyd. Received April 21, 1818, from Pby. 
of Carlisle. Installed May 18, 1818, Pastor of Newtown. Trans- 
ferred Oct. 31, 1833, by Synod to form Second Pby. of Phila. 

No. 172. John F. Grier. Received April 21, 1818, from Pby. of 
New Castle, with his church at Reading. Died Jan. 26, 1829. 

No. 173. Francis G. Ballantine. Received April 21, 1818, from 
Pby. of Hanover. Installed Pastor of Deerfield. Released June 9, 
1824. Died Feb. 17, 1826. 

No. 174. William M. Engles. Received July 14, 1818, as a candi- 
date from Asso. Ref. Pres., Phila. Licensed Oct. 21, 1818. Ordained 
July 6, 1820. Installed July 6, 1820, Pastor of Seventh Ch., Phila. 
Released Sept. 4, 1834. Died Nov. 27, 1867. D.D. 

No. 175. William Ashmead. Received Oct. 20, 1818, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 20, 1820. Dismissed Oct. 17, 1820, to Pby. 
of Northumberland. 

No. 176. James Rooker. Received Dec. 17, 1818, as a candidate. 
Licensed Dec. 17, 1818. Ordained June 8, 1819. Installed June 8, 
1819, Pastor of Oermantown. Released April 20, 1826. Died Dec. 
1, 1826. 

No. 177. Benjamin Ogden. Received April 21, 1819, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 20, 1821. Ordained June 11, 1721. Dismissed 
April 15, 1823, to Pby. of New Castle. Died 1852. 

No. 178. John W. Scott. Received April 22, 1819, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 20, 1820. Ordained Jan. 16, 1824. Transferred 
May 26, 1832, to form Second Pby. of Phila. 

No. 179. Jolm Smith. Received June 8, 1819, from Pby. of Orange. 
Ordained June 27, 1820. Installed June 27, 1820, Pastor of Provi- 

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dence and Springfield. Pastoral relation dissolved April 22, 1829. 
Transferred May 26, 1832, to form Second Fhy. of Phila. 

No. 180. Robert Steel. Received Oct. 19, 1819, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of New York. Ordained Nov, 9, 1819. Installed Nov. 
9, 1819, Pastor of Abington. Transferred Nov. 1, 1833, bj Synod to 
form Second Pby. of Phila. Died Sept. 2, 1862. D.D. 

No. 181. Caspar Schaeflfer. Received April 20, 1820, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 23, 1824. Dismissed April 17, 1827, to Classis 
of Phila. 

No. 182. Benjamin F. Hughes. Received April 20, 1820, as a 
candidate. Licensed Oct. 16, 1822. Dismissed Oct. 23, 1823, to 
Pby. of Jersey. Received April 20, 1824, by return of certificate. 
Ordained May 4, 1824. Installed May 4, 1824, Pastor of First 
African Ch. Pastoral relation dissolved Nov. 18, 1824. Trans- 
ferred Nov. 1, 1833, by Synod to form Second Pby. of Phila. 

No. 183. Thomas Jackson. Received May 4, 1820, from Pby. of 
New York. Withdrawn to the Episcopal Ch., Oct. 26, 1823. 

No. 184. Moses T. Harris. Received .June 27, 1820, as a candi- 
date from Pby. of West Lexington. Licensed Oct. 16, 1822. Dis- 
missed April 17, 1828, to Pby. of Long Island. Ordained Sept. 29, 
1830. Died Sept. 14, 1879. 

No. 185. Theophilus Parvin. Received June 27, 1820, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 20, 1821. Ordained Jan. 6, 1826. Transferred 
March 3, 1828, to form Pby. of Buenos Ayres. Died Dec. 15, 1835. 

No. 186. Samuel Swan. Received Oct. 18, 1820, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 17, 1823. Dismissed Sept. 9, 1823, to Pby. of Hunt- 
ingdon. Ordained June 17, 1824. Died Aug. 5, 1877. 

No. 187. Thomas Gilfillan Mclnnis. Received Oct. 18, 1820, from 
the Relief Pby. of Edinburgh as a foreign minister on probation. 
Dismissed April 18, 1822, to Asso. Ref. Pby. of Phila. 

No. 188. John H. VanCourt. Received April 17, 1821, as a licen- 
tiate from Pby. of New Brunswick. Ordained April 23, 1821. Dis- 
missed Feb. 21, 1825, to Pby. of Mississippi. Died Aug. 1867. 

No. 189. Samuel Lawrence. Received April 17, 1821, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 17, 1823. Ordained Nov. 10, 1824. In- 
stalled Nov. 10, 1824, Pastor of Greenwich. Transferred Oct. 1839, 
to form Pby. of West Jersey. Died April 30, 1875. 

No. 190. Samuel F. Darrach. Received April 20, 1821, as a can- 
didate. Licensed Oct. 22, 1823. Reported dead April 19, 1825. 

No. 191. Samuel Neilson. Received May 11, 1821, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of Belfast. 

No. 192. Baynard R. Hall. Received Oct. 16, 1821, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 22, 1823. Dismissed Nov. 10, 1824, to Pby. of Salem. 

No. 193. Samuel Steel. Received Oct. 16, 1821, as a candidate. 

No. 194. John Burt. Received Oct. 17, 1821, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 17, 1823. Ordained June 8, 1824. Installed June 

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8, 1824, Pastor of Salem, N. J. Pastoral relation dissolved 1829, 

Dismissed Feb. 22, 1833, to Pby. of Cincinnati. Died March 24, 

1866. 
No. 195. George Potts. Received Oct. 17, 1821, as a candidate. 

Licensed Oct. 16, 1822. Ordained Oct. 7, 1823. Dismissed Oct. 22, 

1823, to Pby. of Mississippi. Died Sept. 16, 1864. D.D. 
No. 196. John W. Grier. Received April 17, 1822, as a licentiate 

from Pby. of New Castle. Ordained May 25, 1826. Chaplain, 

U. S. N. Dismissed April 19, 1838, to Pby. of New Brunswick. 

Died March 18, 1864. 
No. 197. Garry Bishop. Received April 17, 1822, as a candidate. 

Licensed April 18, 1823. Dismissed Sept. 11, 1826, to Pby. of 

Huntingdon. 

No. 198. Nathan Harned. Received April 18, 1822, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 16, 1822. Dismissed Jan. 17, 1825, to Pby. of 
Erie. Received Oct. 20, 1830, from Pby. of Hartford. Dismissed 
April 6, 1847, to Pby. of Louisiana. 

No. 199. Charles W. Nassau. Received April 18, 1822, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 23, 1824. Ordained Nov. 16, 1825. In- 
stalled Nov. 16, 1825, Pastor of Norristown, Norriton, and Provi- 
dence. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 21, 1828. Dismissed Nov. 
1, 1833, and set off by Synod to form Second Pby. of Phila. Died 
Aug. 6, 1868. D.D. 

No. 200. James H. Stuart. Received April 18, 1822, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 20, 1824. Ordained Nov. 14, 1826. Dismissed 
August 11, 1827, to Pby. of Huntingdon. Died Feb. 27, 1829. 

No. 201. Jeremiah Gloucester. Received April 18, 1822, as a 
candidate. Licensed Oct. 22, 1823. Ordained July 22, 1824. 
Installed July 22, 1824, Pastor of Second African Ch. Reported 
dead April 16, 1828. 

No. 202. John Kennedy. Received April 18, 1822, as a foreign 
minister on probation. Dismissed July 22, 1824, to Pby. of Troy. 
Received April 16, 1834, from Second Pby. of Phila. Installed May, 
1834, Pastor of Bridgeton. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 17, 1838. 
Dismissed August 22, 1840, to Pby. of Louisville. 

No. 203. -William T. Hamilton. Received Feb. 16, 1822, as a 
candidate. Licensed Oct. 22, 1823. Dismissed July 7, 1824, to 
Pby. of Jersey. 

No. 204. Joseph S. Christmas. Received Feb. 16, 1822, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 22, 1824. Dismissed July 7, 1824, to Pby. 
of New York. Ordained Aug. 1, 1824. Died March 14, 1830. 

No. 205. Charles Thompson. Received Feb. 16, 1822, as a can- 
didate. Licensed Oct. 20, 1824. Dismissed Oct. 18, 1825, to Pby. 
of Susquehanna. 

No. 206. David McKinney. Received April 15, 1822, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 22, 1824. Dismissed Jan. 17, 1825, to Pby. 
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of Erie. Ordained April 13, 1825. Received Jan. 3, 1853, from 
Pby. of Huntingdon. Dismissed Jan. 7, 1856, to Pby. of Ohio. 
Died May 28, 1879. D.D. 

No. 207. John McKinney. Received April 15, 1822, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 22, 1824. Dismissed Oct. 21, 1828, to Pby. 
of Ricliland. Ordained April 14, 1829. Died Aug. 25, 1867. 

No. 208. Edward D. Smith. Received Oct. 22, 1823, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 19, 1826. Dismissed by Committee, 1830, to 
Pby. of District of Columbia. Ordained March 9, 1831. Died 
March 28, 1883. D.D. 

No. 209. John L. Grant. Received Oct. 22, 1823, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 17, 1827, Ordained Oct. 21, 1829. Installed Nov. 
18, 1829, Pastor of Eleventh Ch. Dismissed May 26, 1832, and set 
off to form Second Pby. of Phila. (Assembly's. Name changed to 
Third Pby. of Phila. June 9, 1836.) Deposed April 11, 1860. 
Restored April 15, 1857. Name removed from roll April 13, 1859. 
Died July 18, 1874. 

No. 210. James C. Howe. Received Oct. 22, 1823, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 19, 1825. Dismissed August 31, 1826, to Pby. of 
Otsego. 

No. 211. Alexander Aikman. Received Oct. 22, 1823, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 17, 1827. Ordained Oct. 22, 1828. Died 1831. 

No. 212. "William Neill. Received Oct. 22, 1823, as a candidate. 
Licensed May 26, 1826. Dismissed by Committee, 1827. 

No. 213. Ira Ingraham. Received Oct. 22, 1823, from Addison 
Association, Middlebury. Dismissed Oct. 19, 1824, to Pby. of Lon- 
donderry. 

No. 214. Charles Hyde. Received Oct. 23, 1823, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of Jersey. Ordained Nov. 19, 1823. Installed Nov. 19, 
1823, Pastor of Doylestown and Deep Run. Pastoral relation 
dissolved May 11, 1829. Dismissed April 20, 1830, to New London 
Cong. Asso. 

No. 215. Alvin H. Parker. Received Nov. 19, 1823, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 20, 1824. Ordained May 25, 1826. Installed 
Julv 19, 1826, Pastor of Cape May. Pastoral relation dissolved Nov. 
18, 1829. Installed 1833, Pastor of Middletown. Pastoral relation 
dissolved Oct. 18, 1839. Died July, 1864. 

No. 216. Alexander Heberton. Received Jan. 6, 1824, as a can- 
didate. Licensed Oct. 19, 1826. Dismissed Oct. 16, 1827, to Pby. 
of Newton. Ordained Nov. 27, 1827. Received Dec. 15, 1834, 
from Pby. of Susquehanna. Installed Dec. 15, 1834, Pastor of 
Salem. Dismissed Oct. 21, 1839, to Pby. of West Jersey. Received 
May 5, 1858, from Pby. of Northumberland. Installed May 13, 
1858, Pastor of Ridley Ch. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 31, 
1865. H.R. 
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No. 217. John McGofSn. Received Jan. 6, 1824, as a candidate. 
Licensed Jan. 6, 1824. Resigned his license April 18, 1825. 

No. 218. John Morgan. Received April 20, 1824, as a candidate. 

No. 219. Theophilus Potts. Received April 20, 1824, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 23, 1828. Dismissed April 15, 1834, to Second 
Pbj. of Phila. 

No. 220. Truman Osborne. Dismissed April 15, 1828, to Pby. of 
Baltimore. Died July, 1852. 

No. 221. Elijah W. Stoddard. Received April 20, 1824, as a can- 
didate. Dismissed April 19, 1825, to any Eastern Association. 

No. 222. Brogan Hofif. Received May 4, 1824, from Classis of 
Phila. Installed June 9, 1824, Pastor of Bridgeton. Pastoral rela- 
tion dissolved April 17, 1833. Dismissed Oct. 16, 1833, to Pby. of 
Newton. 

No. 223. Joseph H. Jones. Received June 8, 1824, from Susque- 
hanna Pby. Dismissed April 21, 1825, to Pby. of New Brunswick. 
Received June 6, 1838, from Pby. of New Brunswick. Installed 
June 6, 1838, Pastor of Sixth Ch. Pastoral relation dissolved May 
25, 1861. Died Dec. 22, 1868. D.D. 

No. 224. William S. Potts. Received July 13, 1824, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 17, 1827. Dismissed Sept. 16, 1828, to Pby. 
of Missouri. Ordained Oct. 26, 1828. Died March 28, 1852. D.D. 

No. 225. William F. Curry. Received July 22, 1824, from Pby. 
of New York, as a licentiate. Dismissed Feb. 21, 1825, to Pby. of 
Geneva. Ordained July 14, 1825. Died May 16, 1861. 

No. 226. Thomas L. Janeway. Received Oct. 20, 1824, as a can- 
didate. Licensed Oct. 17, 1827. Dismissed by Committee, 1829, to 
Pby. of Elizabethtown. Ordained Nov. 3, 1829. Received Dec. 3, 
1840, from Pby. of Elizabethtown. Installed Dec. 8, 1840, Pastor 
of First Ch., Penn Township. Pastoral relation dissolved March 6, 
1854. Dismissed July 2, 1855, to Pby. of New Brunswick. Received 
Nov. 10, 1874, to Pby. Phila. Central. D.D. 

No. 227. John McCluskey. Received Oct. 19, 1824, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 19, 1826. Dismissed June 17, 1828, to Pby. of 
Washington. Ordained Oct. 8, 1828. Transferred to Pby. Phila. 
Central June 23, 1870. Died March 31, 1880. D.D. 

No. 228. Thomas W. Irvine. Received Oct. 20, 1824, as a candi- 
date. Died in Princeton Theological Seminary, Feb. 1826. 

No. 229. George Printz. Received Oct. 20, 1824, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 17, 1828. Dismissed Oct. 19, 1830, to Pby. of Sus- 
quehanna. Ordained June 29, 1831. Died April 6, 1880. 

No. 230. Henry Aurand. Received Oct. 20, 1824, as a candidate. 
Dismissed April 17, 1832, to Gren. Ref. Syn. of Penna. Ordained 
1833. Died Oct. 8, 1876. 

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No. 231. James P. Irvine. Received Oct. 21, 1824, from Pbj. of 
Root, Synod of Ulster. Dismissed April 16, 1828, to Pby. of Hunt- 
ingdon. Received April 4, 1848, as foreign minister on probation. 
Name dropped April 25, 1849. 

No. 232. William L. McCalla. Received April 19, 1825, from 
Pby. of Ebenezer. Installed May 12, 1825, Pastor of Eighth Ch., 
Phila. Pastoral relation dissolved April 22, 1835. Installed 
April 20, 1836, Pastor of Fourth Ch., Phila., Jan. 11, 1839, Pas- 
tor of Assembly Ch. Pastoral relation dissolved Sept. 27, 1839. 
Installed Mar. 24, 1842, Pastor of Assembly Ch., Southwark. Pas- 
toral relation dissolved .Tune 27, 1843. Dismissed April 4, 1848, to 
Pby. of Carlisle. Received March 11, 1850, from Pby. Carlisle. 
Installed April 16, 1850, Pastor of Union Ch. Pastoral relation 
dissolved May 3, 1854. Dismissed May 3, 1854, to Pby. of St. Louis. 
Died Oct. 12, 1859. 

No. 233. George Howe. Received April 20, 1825, as a candidate. 
Licensed May 13, 1825. Dismissed April 18, 1827, to Orange Asso. 
N. H. 

No. 234. Britton E. Collins. Received April 20, 1825, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 17, 1828. Dismissed 1829. 

No. 235. James B. M'Creary. Received April 20, 1825, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 17, 1828. Dismissed 1830, to Pby. of 
Northumberland. Ordained Nov. 8, 1838. 

No. 236. John H. Kennedy. Received Nov. 15, 1825, as a licen- 
tiate from Pby. of Carlisle. Ordained Nov. 15, 1825. Installed 
Nov. 15, 1825, Pastor of Sixth Ch. Pastoral relation dissolved Dec. 
17, 1829. Dismissed Oct. 19, 1830, to Pby. of Ohio. Died Dec. 15, 
1840. 

No. 237. James Smith. Received Oct. 19, 1825, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of Carlisle. Ordained Nov. 15, 1825. Installed Nov. 15, 
1825, Pastor of Second Ch., Northern Liberties. Pastoral relation 
dissolved 1833. June, 1870, name dropped from the roll at the 
reunion. Died Dec. 3, 1882. 

No. 238. James D. Pickands. Received Oct. 19, 1825, as a can- 
didate. Licensed Oct. 23, 1828. Dismissed by Committee. Or- 
dained Aug. 31, 1830, by Pby of Watertown. Died Aug. 6, 1876. 

No. 239. William P. Alricks. Received Oct. 19, 1825, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 17, 1828. Dismissed April 21, 1829, to Pby. 
of New Castle. Ordained 1831. Died Dec. 31, 1869. 

No. 240. Samuel Schaffer. Received Oct. 19, 1825, as a candi- 
date. Withdrew April 16, 1828. 

No. 241. Alex. McParlane. Received April 18, 1826, as a licen- 
tiate from Pby. of Albany. Ordained April 27, 1826. Installed 
April 27, 1826, Pastor of Deerfield. Pastoral relation dissolved April 
21, 183(». Dismissed Oct. 19, 1830, to Pby. of Carlisle. 

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No. 242. Sylvester Scovil. Received Oct. 17, 1826, from Pby. of 
Albany. Ordained Aug. 9, 1825. Dismissed April 20, 1830, to 
Pby. of Ohio. Died July 4, 1849. D.D. 

No. 243. John McArthur. Received Oct. 17, 1826, as a candidate. 
Dismissed August 11, 1827, to Pby. of Hartford, Ohio. 

No. 244. Robert Adair. Received Oct. 17, 1826, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 23, 1828. Dismissed by Committee, Oct. 24, 1829, to 
Pby. of New Castle. Ordained Nov. 19, 1829. Received Jnne, 
1870, at the reunion from Fourth Pby. of Phila. Installed May 
14, 1871, Pastor of Tabor Ch. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 31, 
1880. Pastor Emeritus. 

No. 245. Lindley C. Rutter. Received Oct. 19, 1826, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 22, 1830. Dismissed Oct. 22, 1830, to Pby. 
of Chillicothe. Ordained April 6, 1831. Died March 5, 1882. 

No. 246. George W. Musgrave. Received Oct. 19, 1826, as a 
candidate. Dismissed Oct. 21, 1828, to Pby. of Baltimore. Or- 
dained July 25, 1830. Received July 3, 1854, from Pby. of Balti- 
more. Dismissed Feb. 27, 1861, to Central Pby. of Phila., pro 
forma. Installed Jan. 11, 1863, Pastor of Penn Ch. Released Oct. 
12, 1868. Transferred June, 1870, to Phila. Central Pby. at the 
reunion. Died Aug. 24, 1882. D.D., LL.D. 

No. 247. John Gloucester. Received April 17, 1827, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 23, 1828. Reported dead April 17, 1832. 

No. 248. Alfred H. Dashiel. Received April 19, 1827, from Epis. 
Church. Licensed April 19, 1827. Ordained Oct. 17, 1827. 

No. 249. Charles "Williamson. Received Oct. 16, 1827, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 22, 1829. Ordained Jan. 14, 1830. Installed 
Jan. 14, 1830, Pastor of Woodbury and Blackwoodtown. Pastoral 
relation dissolved Oct. 26, 1836. Dismissed Dec. 13, 1836, to Second 
Pby. of Phila. Received June 13, 1839, from Second Pby. of Phila. 
Installed June 13, 1839, Pastor of Thirteenth Ch. Pastoral rela- 
tion dissolved Oct. 26, 1843. Dismissed April 2, 1844, to Pby. of 
Northumberland. 

No. 250. John Clark. Received Oct. 16, 1827, as a candidate. By 
his request name dropped from the roll Oct. 19, 1830. 

No. 251. Tobias Epstein. Received Oct. 16, 1827, as a candidate. 
Died in Princeton Seminary, May 30, 1828. 

No. 252. -William Ramsey. Received April 15, 1828, from Pby. of 
Huntingdon. Ordained Oct. 10, 1827, by Pby. of Huntingdon. 
Withdrew April 23, 1840, to Third Pby. S. S. Cedar Street 
Church. Transferred to Foarth Pby. Oct. 23, 1845. Installed 
April 16, 1854, Cedar Street Church. Transferred Oct. 1855, to 
Third Pby. Pastoral relation dissolved Oct. 20, 1857. Died Jan. 
26, 1858. 

No. 253. John R. Hutchinson. Received April 15, 1828, as a 
candidate. Licensed April 22, 1829. Dismissed 1829 to Pby. of 

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Mississippi. Ordained July, 1830, by Pbj. of Mississippi. Died 
Feb. 24, 1868. D.D. 

No. 254. Jacob D. Mitchell. Received April 15, 1828, as a can- 
didate. Dismissed 1829 to Pby. of Albany. Ordained Nov. 17, 
1829, bj Pby. of Oneida. Died June 28, 1877. D.D. 

No. 255. Hugh Hamill. Received April 15, 1828, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 22, 1830. Dismissed Oct. 16, 1832, to Pby. of Buffalo. 
Ordained Oct. 31, 1832. Died Aug. 1, 1881. D.D. 

No. 256. James C. "Watson. Received April 15, 1828, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 22, 1830. Dismissed July 17, 1832, to Pby. 
of Carlisle. Ordained Oct. 4, 1832. Died Aug. 30, 1880. D.D. 

No. 257. George "W. Kennedy. Received April 15, 1828, as a 
candidate. Licensed Oct. 21, 1829. Dismissed April 20, 1831, to 
Pby. of Baltimore. Ordained July 21, 1821. Died April 4, 1887. 
D.D. 

No. 258. Samuel M. McClung. Received April 15, 1828, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 23, 1835. Ordained April 20, 1836. Dis- 
missed April 18, 1837, to Pby. of Blairsville. Died August 6, 1869. 

No. 259. Robert Dunlap. Received April 16, 1828, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 20, 1830. Dismissed 1830. Ordained 1831 
by Pby. of Northumberland. Died March 21, 1847. 

No. 260. Cochran Forbes. Received April 16, 1828, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 21, 1831. Ordained Oct. 27, 1831. Missionary 
to Hawaiian Islands 1833-1847. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1848, to Pby. of 
Blairsville. Received June, 1870, at the reunion. Dismissed 
April 1, 1873, to Phila. Central Pby. Died Nov. 5, 1880. 

No. 261. Thomas Eustace. Received May 20, 1828, from Pby. 
of Baltimore. Installed April 26, 1831, Pastor of Twelfth Church, 
Phila. Transferred May 26, 1832, to form Second Pby. of Phila. 
(Assembly's.) Pastoral relation dissolved July 7, 1835. Dismissed 
April 16, 1840, to Pby. of St. Charles. 

No. 262. Samuel R. Bertron. Received Oct. 21, 1828, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 20, 1830. Ordained April 22, 1831. Trans- 
ferred May 26, 1832, to form Second Pby. of Phila. (Assembly's. 
Name changed to Fourth Pby. June 9, 1836.) Dismissed Oct. 22. 
1844, to Pby. of Miss. 

No. 263. Joseph Sanford. Received Jan. 21, 1829. from Pby. of 
New York. Installed Jan. 21, 1829, Pastor of Second Ch., Phila. 
Died Dec. 25, 1831. 

No. 264. Nicholas Murray. Received April 21, 1829, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 22, 1829. Dismissed 1830 by Committee to 
Pby. of Susquehanna. Ordained Nov. 4, 1829. Died February 4, 
1861. D.D. 

No. 265. Molliston Clark. Received April 22, 1829, as a candi- 
date. 

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No. 266. Charles Hoover. Received May 11, 1829, from Pby. of 
Newark. Installed Oct. 25, 1829, Pastor of First Ch., Southwark. 
Released Jan. 16, 1832. Dismissed Jan. 16, 1832, to Pby. of Eliza- 
bethtown. 

No. 267. Charles W. G-ardiner. Received May 11, 1829, from 
M. Epis. Ch. as a candidate. Licensed May 11, 1829. Dismissed 
April 21, 1830, as a licentiate to Meth. Epis. Ch. Received April 
20, 1836, from M. Epis. Ch. Installed July 3, 1836, Pastor of First 
African Ch. Released Jan. 25, 1848. Dismissed July 4, 1848, to 
Pby. of New Brunswick. 

No. 268. Robert H. Smith. Received Oct. 20, 1829, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Nov. 18, 1829. Died August 10, 1858. 

No. 269. "William Bacon. Received Oct. 21, 1829, from Pby. of 
Albany. Transferred May 26, 1832, to form Second Pby. of Phila. 
(Assembly's. Name changed to Third Pby. June 9, 1836. Dis- 
missed May 8, 1837, lo Pby. of Troy. 

No. 270. John Monteith. Received Oct. 21, 1829, from Pby. of 
Oneida. Ordained May 12, 1817. Dismissed Oct. 19, 1830, to Pby. 
of Troy. Died April 5, 1868. 

No. 271. James Nourse. Received Nov. 18, 1829, from Pby. of 
District of Columbia. Dismissed April 21, 1831, to Pby. of Hunt- 
ingdon. Ordained May 19, 1829. Died July 6, 1854. 

No. 272. George McCuen. Received Nov. 18, 1829, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 22, 1830. Ordained Oct. 22, 1830. Installed 
Nov. 9, 1831, Pastor of Deerfield. Released Oct. 20, 1836. Dis- 
missed Sept. 7, 1839, to Pby. of Orange. 

No. 273. Thomas MoAuley. Received Dec. 17, 1829, from Pby. 
of New York. Installed Dec. 17, 1829, Pastor of Tenth Ch., Phila. 
Transferred May 26, 1832, to form Second Pby. of Phila. (Assem- 
bly's.) Released Jan. 15, 1833, and dismissed to Pby. of New 
York. D.D. 

No. 274. Joshua T. Russell. Received April 20, 1830, from Pby. 
of Newark. Dismissed Oct. 16, 1833, to Pby. of Cincinnati. 

No. 275. Robert Young. Received April 20, 1830, as a foreign 
probationer fi-om Pby. of Hamilton, Scotland. Dismissed Oct. 19, 
1830, to Pby. of Richland. 

No. 276. "Wheelock S. Stone. Received April 20, 1830, as a 
candidate. Licensed April 21, 1831. Dismissed July 17, 1831, to 
Pby. of Northumberland. Died Sept. 22, 1837. 

No. 277. John MoNair. Received April 20, 1830, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 21, 1831. Dismissed Oct. 16, 1833, to Pby. of Erie. 
Ordained Nov. 7, 1833. Died Jan. 27, 1867. D.D. 

No. 278. James P. "Wilson, Jr. Received April 20, 1830, as a 
candidate. Licensed Oct. 20, 1830. Transferred Oct. 1833, to care 
of Second Pby. of Phila. (Synodical.) 

No. 279. Albert Judson. Received April 21, 1830, from Pby. of 
New York. Transferred May 26, 1832, to form Second Pby. of 

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Phila. (Assembly's. Name changed to Third Pby. June 9, 1836.) 
Installed Nov. 1832, Pastor of Southwark First Church. Died 
April 14, 1839. 

No. 280. Samuel G. "Winchester. Received May 4, 1830, from 
Pby. of Baltimore. Ordained May 4, 1830. Installed May 4, 1830, 
Pastor of Sixth Ch., Phila. Released June 23, 1837. Dismissed 
Nov. 1, 1837, to Pby. of Mississippi. Died Aug. 31, 1841. 

No. 281. Asa S. Colton. Received May 4, 1830, as a candidate 
from Pby. of New Brunswick. Licensed Oct. 20, 1830. Reported 
as withdrawn to the Episcopal Ch., April 19, 1833. Died Aug. 19, 
1881. 

No. 282. Albert Barnes. Received June 23, 1830, from Pby. of 
Elizabethtown. Ordained Feb. 8, 1825. Installed June 25, 1830, 
Pastor of First Ch., Phila. Transferred May 26, 1832, to form Sec- 
ond Pby. of Phila. (Assembly's. Name changed to Third Pby. 
of Phila. June 9, 1836. ) Set off with First Church to Fourth Pby. 
of Phila. Oct. 23, 1845. Pastoral relation dissolved Dec. 24, 1867. 
Pastor Emeritus 1867-70. Received June, 1870, at the reunion, 
from Fourth Pby. of Phila. Died Dec. 24, 1870. 

No. 283. George Junkin. Received Oct. 19, 1830, from Pby. of 
Northumberland. Dismissed Nov. 1, 1833, to Second Pby. of Phila. 
Synodical. Received May 25, 1861, from Pby. of Lexington. Died 
May 20, 1868. D.D. 

No. 284. Henry Hotchkiss. Received Oct. 19, 1830, from Pby. of 
Oneida. Reported dead April 17, 1832. 

No. 285. Robert H. Lilly. Received Oct. 19, 1830, from Pby. of 
Ebenezer. Licensed Oct. 21, 1831. Dismissed Oct. 16, 1832, to 
Pby. of West Tennessee. Ordained April, 1833. Died Jan. 14, 
1874. 

No. 286. James Read Eckard. Received Oct. 19, 1830, as a can- 
didate. Dismissed Oct. 16, 1832, to Second Pby. of Phila. (As- 
sembly's.) Ordained July 21, 1833. Died March 12, 1887. D.D. 

No. 287. George H. Apthorp. Received Oct. 19, 1830, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 20, 1832. Dismissed April 19, 1833, to Pby. 
of East Hanover. Ordained Jan. 16, 1832. Died June 8, 1844. 

No. 288. James Stratton. Received Oct. 19, 1830, as a candidate. 
Dismissed Oct. 16, 1833, to Pby. of West Hanover. Ordained April, 
1836. Died Dec. 6, 1884. 

No. 289. James Temple. Received Oct. 22, 1830, as a candidate. 
Withdrew April 22, 1835. 

No. 290. Moses "Williamson. Received April 20, 1831, as a licen- 
tiate from Pby. of Carlisle. Ordained July 6, 1831. Installed July 
6, 1831, Pastor of Cape May. Transferred Oct. 21, 1839, to form 
Pby. of West Jersey. Died Oct. 30, 1880. 

No. 291. Robert G. Thompson. Received April 21, 1831, as a 
candidate. Licensed April 19, 1833. Ordained Oct. 17, 1833. Died 
March 19, 1879. 

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No. 292. Jacob Larzalere. Received April 22, 1831, from Classis 
of Phila. Died August, 1834. 

No. 293. Silas M. Andrews. Received Oct. 20, 1831, as a licen- 
tiate from Pby. of New Bruuswick. Ordained Nov. 16, 1831. In- 
stalled Nov. 16, 1831, Pastor of Doylestown and Doe Run. Trans- 
ferred Nov. 1, 1833, to form Second Pby. of Pliila. (Synodical.) 
Died March 7, 1881. D.D. 

No. 294. "William J. Gibson. Received Oct. 20, 1831, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 20, 1831. Ordained Feb. 7, 1832. Installed 
Feb. 7, 1832, Pastor of Ninth Ch., Phila. Transferred May 1, 1833, 
to form Second Pby. of Phila. (Synodical.) Received July 6, 1841, 
from Pby. of Huntingdon. Installed .July 12, 1841, Pastor of Union 
Ch. Released June 28, 1842. Dismissed June 28, 1842, to Pby. of 
Huntingdon. Died 1833. D.D. 

No. 295. James McEwen. Received Oct. 20, 1831, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 17, 1833. Ordained April 24, 1835. Dismissed Oct. 
21, 1835, to Asso. Ref. Pby. of New York. Died March 11, 1845. 

No. 296. Joshua Moore. Received Oct. 21, 1831, from Pby. of 
Lewes. Dismissed April 23, 1835, to Pby. of Huntingdon. Died 
April 15, 1854. 

No. 297. John H. Simms. Received Nov. 16, 1831, from Ref. 
Pby. of Phila. Installed Nov. 29, 1832, Pastor of Fairmount Ch. 
Released Oct. 17, 1833. Dismissed Oct. 17, 1833, to Pby. of New 
Castle. 

No. 298. David X. Junkin. Received April 17, 1832, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 17, 1833. Transferred April 17, 1834, to Second 
Pby. of Phila. Ordained March 25, 1835. Died April 22, 1880. 
D.D. 

No. 299. Hugh M. Koontz. Received .July 17, 1832, from Pby. of 
Hudson. Installed July 17, 1832, Pastor of Penn Township. Re- 
leased July 30, 1833. Transferred Nov. 1, 1833, to form Second 
Pby. of Phila. (Synodical.) 

No. 300. John T. M. Davie. Received Aug. 28, 1832, from Pby. of 
New York. Installed Aug. 28, 1832, Pastor of Frankford. Trans- 
ferred Nov. 1, 1833, to form Second Pby. of Phila. (Synodical.) 

No. 301. John B. Pinney. Received Oct. 12, 1832, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of New Brunswick. Ordained Oct. 12, 1832. Dismissed 
April 18, 1838, to Pby. of Ohio. Received Oct. 4, 1843, from Pby. 
of Ohio. Dismissed Jan. 5, 1847, to Pby. of Washington. Died 
Dec. 25, 1882. 

No. 302. Joseph W. Barr. Received Oct. 12, 1832, as a licentiate 
from Pby. of New Brunswick. Ordained Oct. 12, 1832. Died Nov. 
13, 1832. 

No. 303. John D. Matthews. Received April 16, 1833, from Pby. 
of Georgia. Ordained Jan. 1832. Dismissed Oct. 16, 1833, to Pby. 
of Winchester. Died March 7, 1884. D.D. 

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No. 304. James M. Dunn. Received April 16, 1833, as a candidate. 
Reported dead April 21, 1836. 

No. 305. "William Patterson. Received April 17, 1833, as a can- 
didate. Dismissed Dec. 8, 1835, to Pbj. of Bedford. 

No. 306. James Clark. Received April 17, 1833, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 16, 1834. Dismissed Sept. 21, 1837, to Pbj. of New- 
Brunswick. Ordained Nov. 8, 1837. Received from Pby. of North- 
umberland May 6, 1861, to Central Pby., June, 1870, Pby. Phila- 
delphia Central. D.D. 

No. 307. John Newton Allen. Received April 17, 1833, as a 
candidate. Licensed Aug. 5, 1834. Died Dec. 30, 1835. 

No. 308. John McDowell. Received June 6, 1833, from Pby. of 
Elizabethtown. Ordained Dec. 26, 1804, Pby. of New York. In- 
stalled June 6, 1833, Pastor of Central Ch., Pliila. Transferred Oct. 
1833, to Second Pby. of Phila. Synodical. 'Received Nov. 26, 1839, 
from Second Pby. with his church (Central Ch.). Released Nov. 
20, 1845. Installed Feb. 3, 1846, Pastor of Spring Garden Ch. 
Died Feb. 13, 1863. D.D. 

No. 309. Benjamin Tyler. Received Oct. 16, 1833, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 21, 1835. Ordained Oct. 18, 1837. Installed Oct. 18, 
1837, Pastor of Deerfield. Transferred Oct. 21, 1839, to form Pby. 
of West Jersey. Died June 26, 1842. 

No. 310. Arthur B. Bradford. Received Oct. 16, 1833, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 16, 1834. Ordained Sept. 18, 1834. Installed 
Sept. 18, 1834, Pastor of Second Ch., Southwark. Released Feb. 
11, 1835. Dismissed April 19, 1836, to Pby. of Newton. 

No. 311. "William "W. Latta. Received April 16, 1834, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 23, 1835. Dismissed April 18, 1837, to Pby. 
of New Castle. Received June, 1870, at the reunion, from Pby. of 
Donegal. Died Sept. 5, 1883. 

No. 312. Moses Floyd. Received April 16, 1834, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 23, 1835. Dismissed Oct. 26, 1836, to Pby. of Hunt- 
ingdon. Ordained April 4, 1837. 

No. 313. Thomas A. Ammerman. Received Oct. 22, 1834, from 
Classis of Albany. Dismissed April 22, 1835, to Classis of Ulster. 

No. 314. Leslie Irwin. Received Oct. 22, 1834, from Pby. of 
Monaghan, Ireland. Dismissed Oct. 26, 1835, to Pby. of Newton. 

No. 315. Samuel D. Blythe. Received Feb. 11, 1835, from Pby. 
of Madison. Installed Feb. 16, 1835, Pastor of Seventh Ch. Re- 
leased June 23, 1837. Installed Aug. 20, 1838, Pastor of Woodbury 
and Blackwoodtown. Transferred Oct. 21, 1839, to form Pres. of 
West Jersey. Died June 23, 1843. 

No. 316. "William R. Preston. Received April 22, 1835, as a 
candidate. Licensed April 20, 1836. Dismissed April 18, 1838, to 
Pbj. of Transylvania. 

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No. 317. Edwin H. Nevin. Received April 22, 1835, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 20, 1836. Dismissed June 20, 1837, to Pby. of 
Athens. Ordained June 25, 1839. Received to Pby. Phila. Central 
June 22, 1876, from Phila. Classis Germ. Ref. Ch. D.D. 

No. 318. John Lysle. Received April 24, 1835, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 21, 1835. Dismissed Dec. 21, 1837, to Pby. of Muhl- 
enburgh. 

No. 319. David D. McKee. Received April 24, 1835, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 21, 1835. Ordained Aug. 4, 1836. Installed 
Aug. 4, 1836, Col. Pastor of Fairfield. Released Oct. 22, 1838. 
Dismissed March 4, 1841, to Pby. of Sangammon. Died Jan. 17, 1884. 

No. 320. Alexander Maclin. Received Oct. 21, 1835, from Pby. of 
Newton. Installed Oct. 26, 1835, Pastor of Eighth Ch. Died July 
6,1859. D.D. 

No. 321. Jared L. Elliott. Received Oct. 26, 1835, from Pby. of 
New York. Ordained Oct. 26, 1835. Chaplain U. S. A. Died 
April 16, 1881. 

No. 322. Thomas Hoge. Received April 19, 1836, from Pby. 'of 
Washington. Died Jan. 23, 1847. 

No. 323. James O. Stedman. Received April 19, 1836, from Pby. 
of Fayetteville. Licensed April 20, 1836. Dismissed April 18, 1837, 
to Pby. of New Castle. Ordained Nov. 1, 1837. Died Nov. 3, 1882. 
D.D. 

No. 324. Robert D. Morris. Received April 19, 1836, from Pby. 
of Ebenezer. Licensed Aprill9, 1838. Dismissed Oct. 16, 1838, to 
Second Pby. of Phila. Ordained Oct. 23, 1838. Died Nov. 3, 1882. 
D.D. 

No. 325. Rapin E. Smith. Received April 20, 1836, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 19, 1837. License withdrawn. 

No. 326. Richard A. Curran. Received April 20, 1836, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 19, 1837. Transferred Oct. 21, 1839, to 
Pby. of West Jersey by Synod. Ordained Nov. 1839. Died March 
26, 1883. 

No. 327. Robert W. Dunlap. Received April 20, 1836, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 19, 1837. Dismissed March 8, 1838, to Pby. 
of Georgia. Ordained April 6, 1838. Died Feb. 17, 1856. 

No. 328. Charles W. Gardiner. Received April 20, 1836, from 
M. Epis. Ch. Installed July 3, 1836, Pastor of First African Ch. 
Released Jan. 25, 1848. Dismissed July 4, 1848, to Pby. of New 
Brunswick. 

No. 329. Daniel Stratton. Received June 22, 1836, as a candidate. 

Dismissed Dec. 13, 1836, to Pby. of West Hanover. Ordained May 

5, 1838. Died Aug. 24, 1866. 
No. 330. Robert Osborne. Received Oct. 18, 1836, as a candidate. 

Licensed April 17, 1839. Dismissed Oct. 21, 1839, to Pby. of West 

Jersey. Ordained April 10, 1841. Died July 13, 1878. 

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No. 331. Ephraim Fitler. Received Oct. 19, 1836, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 19, 1836. Dismissed Jan. 23, 1849, to Pby. of Western 
Africa. 
No. 332. Solomon P. Halliday. Received .Tune 27, 1837, from 
Pby. of Long Island. Dismissed Feb. 18, 1840, to Pby. of Georgia. 
No. 333. Henry A. Boardman. Received .June 27, 1837, from 
Second Pby. of Phila. (Assembly's), by order of Gren. Assembly, 
with Tenth Ch. Ordained Nov. 8, 1833, by Second Pby. of Phila. 
(Assembly's). Installed Nov. 8, 1833, Pastor of Tenth Ch. Re- 
leased May 25, 1876, Pastor Emeritus. Died June 15, 1880. D.D. 

No. 334. David Teese. Received Oct. 18, 1837, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 23, 1840. Dismissed March 24, 1842, to Pby. of 
Bedford. Ordained May 4, 1842. 

No. 335. Levi Janvier. Received Oct. 18, 1837, as a candidate. 
Transferred Oct. 21, 1839, by Synod to Pby. of West Jersey. 
Ordained Dec. 31, 1840. Died March 25, 1864. 

No. 336. John B. McCoy. Received Nov. 20, 1837, from Pby. of 
Washington. Licensed April 19, 1838. Dismissed Dec. 18, 1838, 
to Pby. of Washington. Ordained June 26, 1839. Died Oct. 13, 
1841. 

No. 337. Thomas Grier. Received April 18, 1838, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 16, 1839. Dismissed April 21, 1841, to Pby. of Sidney. 
Died May 18, 1841. 

No. 338. "William MoRee. Received April 18, 1838, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 17, 1839. Dismissed Feb. 18, 1840, to Pby. 
of Alabama. Ordained April 5, 1840. Died July 6, 1861. 

No- 339. John D. Whitham. Received April 18, 1838, as a can- 
didate. Licensed May 25, 1840. Dismissed April 21, 1841, to Pby. 
of Washington. Ordained Oct. 12, 1841. 

No. 340. Samuel Orr. Received Oct. 17, 1838, as a candidate. 
Dismissed Dec. 10, 1839, to Pby. of Louisville. 

No. 341. Ephraim Ogden. Received Oct. 17, 1838, as a candidate. 

No. 342. George Morris. Received 1838, as a foreign licentiate 
on probation. Dismissed April 16, 1839, to Pby. of Carlisle. 

No. 343. Orson Douglass. Received April 16, 1839, from Pby. of 
New Castle. Ordained May 25, 1822. S. S. Mariners' Ch. Died 
March 1, 1852. 

No. 344. David W. S"wartz. Received April 16, 1839, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 19, 1839. License revoked June 28, 1842. 

No. 345. Lewis W. Williams. Received April 17, 1839, as a 
candidate. Licensed April 23, 1840. Dismissed April 21, 1841, to 
Pby. of Blairsville. Ordained May 12, 1841. Died May 7, 1857. 

No. 346. Samuel Beach Jones. Received April 18, 1839, from 
Pby. of Mississippi. Ordained Oct. 4, 1837, by Pby. of New Bruns- 
wick. Installed May 9, 1839, Pastor of Bridgeton. Transferred 

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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

Oct. 21, 1839, to form Pby. of West Jersey. Died March 19, 1833. 
D.D. 

No. 347. John Hall. Received May 22, 1839. Licensed June 13, 
1839. Dismissed July 6, 1841, to Pby. of New Brunswick. Ordained 
and installed pastor of the First Church of Trenton, N. J., Aug. 16, 
1841. D.D. 

No. 348. Azariah Pryor. Received June 13, 1839, from Pby. of 
Newton. Installed Dec. 15, 1839, Pastor of Second Ch., Southwark. 
Withdrew April 5, 1842, to Epis. Ch. 

No. 349. Charles K. Imbrie. Received Oct. 15, 1839. Licensed 
Oct. 7, 1840. Dismissed Dec. 24, 1840, to Pby. of Elizabethtown. 
Ordained Jan. 5, 1841. D.D. 

No. 350. Cornelius C. Cuyler. Ordained Jan. 2, 1809. Received 
Nov. 26, 1839, from Second Pby. of Phila., with his church (Second). 
Released May 7, 1850. Died Aug. 31, 1850. D.D. 

No. 351. James L. Dinwiddle. Received Nov. 26, 1839, from 
Second Pby. of Phila., with his church (First Ch., Penn Township). 
Released Aug. 22, 1840. Dismissed July 6, 1841, to Pby. of Monon- 
gahela. 

No. 352. Archibald Tudehope. Received Nov. 26, 1839, from 
Second Pby. of Phila. Installed Jan. 12, 1841, Pastor of Ninth Ch. 
Released May 16, 1849. Transferred Oct. 29, 1861, to Central Pby. 
of Phila. Died Dec. 6, 1861. 

No. 353. Charles "Wood. Received Feb. 18, 1840, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 4, 1848. Ordained May 20, 1849. Dismissed July 2, 
1850, to Pby. of Brazos. 

No. 354. "Willis Lord. Received March 19, 1840, from Evan. Cong. 
Asso. of Rhode Island. Ordained August, 1834. Installed March 
23, 1840, Pastor of Seventh Ch., Phila. Released Oct. 1, 1850. Dis- 
missed Oct. 1, 1850, to Pby. of Cincinnati. D.D., LL.D. 

No. 355. Griffith Owen. Received April 21, 1840, from Pby. of 
Baltimore. Ordained April 22, 1840. Installed April 22, 1840, 
Pastor of Cohocsink Ch. Released Oct. 15, 1844. Dismissed May 
28, 1845, to Pby. of Redstone. Received Jan. 6, 1848, from Pby. of 
Redstone. Installed April 16, 1851, Pastor of Southwark Ch. 
Released Oct. 4, 1855. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1855, to Pby. of Baltimore. 
Died Jan. 14, 1871. 

No. 356. Joseph McMurray. Received April 21, 1840, as a candi- 
date. Licensed July 7, 1846. Dismissed Jan. 2, 1847, to Pby. of 
Elizabethtown. Ordained Jan. 6, 1847. Received Oct. 10, 1860, 
from Second Pby. of Phila. Transferred June, 1870, at the reunion, 
to Pby. of West Jersey. Died June 12, 1873. 

No. 357. William W. Bonnell. Received April 21, 1840, as a 
licentiate from Second Pby. by change of boundary. Dismissed 
June 28, 1842, to Classis of Mercersburg. Ordained July 10, 1842. 
Died Dec. 2, 1849. 

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No. 358. Joshua Phelps, Jr. Received April 21, 1840, as a candi- 
date from Second Pby. by change of boundary. Licensed April 23, 
1840. Ordained Oct. 11, 1840. Dismissed Oct. 15, 1840, to Pby. of 
Hopewell. 

No. 359. John Wray. Received April 21, 1840, as a candidate 
from Second Pby. by change of boundary. Licensed April 23, 1841. 
Ordained July 18, 1841. Dismissed July 18, 1841, to Pby. of Alla- 
habad. Received May 7, 1850, from Pby. of Allahabad. Dismissed 
July 2, 1850, to Pby. of Clarion. Died August 16, 1873. 

No. 360. Ashbel G. Harned. Received April 21, 1840, as a can- 
didate from Second Pby. by change of boundary. Licensed .June 
27, 1843. Dismissed Jan. 2, 1844, to Pby. of Luzerne. Ordained 
May 1, 1844. Died Oct. 16, 1881. 

No. 361. David W. Eakins. Received April 23, 1840, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 7, 1847. Ordained April 9, 1848. Transferred 
May 9, 1848, by xA.ct of Assembly to form Pby. of Creek Nation. 
Received Oct. 7, 1862, from Pby. of Creek Nation. Died March 5, 
1876. 

No. 362. Philip Cressman. Received April 23, 1840, as a candi- 
date. 

No. 363. Nathaniel Kennedy. Received June 9, 1840, from Pby. 
of Londonderry. Dismissed at his request Oct. 8, 1840, and his 
papers returned. 

No. 364. Joseph B. Stratton. Received Oct. 7, 1840, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Jan. 6, 1843. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1843, to Pby. of 
Mississippi. Ordained December 31, 1843. D.D. 

No. 365. Gaylord L. Moore. Received Oct. 15, 1840, from Pby. 
of New Castle. Installed Nov. 3, 1840, Pastor of Fairmount Ch. 
(Withdrew with his church, July 7, 1841, to Third Pby. of Phila,, 
N. S.) Received Oct. 4, 1869, from Pby. of Palmyra. Dismissed 
Jan. 3, 1870, to Pby. of New Castle. 

No. 366. "William Loughridge. Received Nov. 11, 1840, from 
Pby. of New York. Installed Nov. 17, 1840, Pastor of Fourth Ch. 
Died Nov. 11, 1846. 

No. 367. John L. Jane"way. Received Jan. 12, 1841, as a licentiate 
from Classis of New Brunswick. Dismissed June 27, 1843, to Classis 
of Passaic. 

No. 368. Joshua P. Green. Received April 21, 1841, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Jan. 6, 1843. Dismissed April 2, 1844, to Pby. of 
Transylvania. Ordained July 12, 1844. Died August 1, 1854. 

No. 369. William McK. Smyth. Received April 21, 1841, as a 
candidate. Licensed Jan. 6, lb43. Dismissed April 2, 1844, to Pby. 
of South Alabama. Ordained Nov. 24, 1844. 

No. 370. Thomas B. Bradford. Received April 21, 1841, from 
Second Pby. of Phila. Dismissed April 5, 1843, to Second Pby. of 
Phila. 

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No. 371. Samuel P. Helme. Received Oct. 5, 1841, from Pby. of 
Susquehanna. Ordained Nov. 3, 1841. Installed Nov. 3, 1841, 
Pastor of Middleton and Ridley. Released from Ridley April 5, 
1842; from Middletown Oct. 13, 1842. Dismissed April 2, 1844, to 
Pby. of Tombeckbee. Died June 11, 1862. 

No. 372. Charles John Jones. Received Oct. 5, 1841, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 5, 1848. Dismissed April 3, 1849, to Pby. of 
St. Louis. Ordained Jan. 9, 1850. D.D. 

No. 373. Henry M. Wilson. Received Oct. 6, 1841, as a candidate. 
Licensed Oct. 6, 1847. Dismissed April 3, 1849, to Pby. of New York. 
Ordained Nov. 16, 1851. 

No. 374. John Parker Hall. Received Oct. 6, 1841, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 6, 1842. Dismissed Oct. 6, 1846, to Pby. of Louisiana. 
Received Jan. 5, 1852, from Pby. of St. Clairsville. Returned his 
licensure Jan. 8, 1877. Died 1886. 

No. 375. James Mackay. Received Jan. 4, 1842, as a candidate. 

No. 376. Michael S. Culbertson. Received Jan. 5, 1842, as a can- 
didate. Dismissed June 27, 1843, to Pby. of Carlisle. Ordained 
May 29, 1844. Missionary in China. Died August 25, 1862. D.D. 

No. 377. Peter A. McMartin. Received Jan. 5, 1842, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 4, 1844. Dismissed Jan. 2, 1849, to Pby. of 
East Hanover. Ordained Dec. 3, 1856. 

No. 378. Samuel MahafiFy. Received April 6, 1842, as a candidate. 
Dismissed April 1, 1845, to Pby. of St. Clairsville. Ordained Sept. 
11, 1846. 

No. 379. Thomas H. Ne^wton. Received April 6, 1842, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 5, 1848. Ordained Nov. 13, 1850. Dismissed 
Oct. 5, 1853, to Pby. of Northumberland. Died Nov. 19, 1880. 
D.D. 

No. 380. Peter Leslie, Jr. Received June 28, 1842, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 4, 1844. License withdrawn May 5, 1848. 

No. 381. Charles Pottinger. Received June 28, 1842, as a candi- 
date. 

No. 382. Josiah B. Poage. Received June 28, 1842, from Pby. of 
Ebenezer. Licensed June 29, 1842. Dismissed Jan. 3, 1844, to Pby. 
of Ebenezer. Ordained Oct. 4, 1845. Died Dec. 18, 1882. 

No. 383. James W. Stewart. Received Oct. 4, 1842, from Classis 
of Paramus. Licensed Oc^. 16, 1816. Ordained Oct. ^3, 1825. 
Installed Oct. 13, 1842, Pastor of Union Ch. Died March 1, 1849. 

No. 384. Richard V. Dodge. Received Oct. 5, 1842, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Jan. 4, 1844. Dismissed Jan. 7, 1845, to Pby. of 
Vincennes. Ordained June 16, 1846. Died Feb. 26, 1885. 

No. 385. William A. McDowell. Received Jan. 3, 1843, from 
Pby. of Charleston. Corresponding Secretary, Board of Domestic 
Missions. Ordained Dec. 22, 1813, by Pby. of New Brunswick. 
Died Sept. 17, 1851. 

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No. 386. Matthew B. Hope. Received Jan. 3, 1843, from Pby. of 
Huntingdon. Dismissed Oct. 6, 1846, to Pbj. of New Brunswick. 
Ordained April 7, 1836. Died Dec. 15, 1879. M.D. 

No. 387. William J. Murphy. Received Jan. 3, 1843, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Jan. 4, 1844. Dismissed July 2, 1844, to Pby. of 
Huntingdon. Ordained Jan. 15, 1845. 

No. 388. Robert Earp, Jr. Received Jan. 3, 1843, as a candidate. 
Licensed Jan. 6, 1844. License returned Oct. 6, 1846. 

No. 389. Joshua Stevenson. Received Jan. 3, 1843, as a candi- 
date. 

No. 390. Augustus T. Dobson. Received April 5, 1843, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 9, 1851. Dismissed July 5, 1853, to Pby. 
of Long Island. Ordained Oct. 30, 1853. 

No. 391. Joseph McConnell. Received April 5, 1843, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Jan. 23, 1849. Dismissed Oct. 29, 1849, to Pby. of 
Elizabethtown. Ordained Nov. 13, 1849. 

No. 392. Justus F. Umsted. Received April 5, 1843, as a candi- 
date. Licensed July 7, 1847. Dismissed Jan. 8, 1850, to Pby. of 
Iowa. Ordained Oct. 15, 1850. D.D. 

No. 393. John Thomas. Received April 5, 1843, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 4, 1849. Ordained Oct. 9, 1850. Installed Oct. 9, 
1850, Pastor of Phoenixville. Released July 2, 1855. Dismissed 
July 2, 1855, to Pby. of Northumberland. 

No. 394. John Cross. Received April 5, 1843, as a foreign proba- 
tioner. United Ass. of Glasgow. Dismissed Oct. 26, 1843, to Pby. 
of New Lisbon. 

No. 395. "William L. "W. Chapman. Received June 27, 1843, as a 
candidate. 

No. 396. Jonathan C. Gibbs. Received Jane 27, 1843, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 6, 1855. Dismissed July 2, 1855, to Pby. 
of Troy. Received Jan. 3, 1860, from Pby. of Troy. Installed April 
10, 1860, Pastor of First African Cb. Released April 2, 1866. Dis- 
missed Jan. 7, 1867, to Pby. of Catawba. Died Aug. 14, 1874. 

No. 397. Basil N. Gaines. Received June 27, 1843, as a candidate. 

No. 398. John F. Wilson. Received June 27, 1843, as a candi- 
date. 

No. 399. John H. Smaltz. Received Oct. 3, 1843, from Classis of 
Lebanon. Installed Oct. 16, 1843, Pastor of Assembly Ch., South- 
wark. Released April 1, 1845. Dismissed April 9, 1861, to Central 
Pby. of Phila. Died July 30, 1861. 

No. 400. Thomas B. Gaw. Received Jan. 2, 1844, as a candidate. 

No. 401. Henry E. Spayd. Received Jan. 2, 1844, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 7, 1853. Dismissed July 5, 1853, to Pby. of Raritan. 
Ordained July 20, 1853. 

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No. 402. James "Wilson. Received Jan. 2, 1844, as a candidate. 
Received Jan. 4, 1848, as a candidate. Licensed April 5, 1850. 
Dismissed Oct. 16, 1851, to Pby. of Mississippi. Ordained Oct. 23, 

1852. 

No. 403. Stuart Mitchell. Received Jan. 2, 1844, as a candidate. 

Licensed April 5, 1850. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1852, to Pby. of Wyoming. 

Ordained Oct. 22, 1852. 
No. 404. Henry J. David. Received Jan. 2, 1844, as a candidate. 

Licensed Jan. 25, 1848. Dismissed April 6, 1848, to Pby. of Luzerne. 

Ordained May 9, 1848. 

No. 405. Alexander Fairbairn. Received April 2, 1844, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 5, 1850. Ordained Nov. 4, 1851. Dismissed 
Jan. 5, 1852, to Pby. of Brazos. 

No. 406. Jacob D. Mitchell. Received July 2, 1844, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 2, 1845. Dismissed July 1, 1845, to Pby. of 
Luzerne. Ordained Sept. 24, 1845. 

No. 407. Edward Wurts. Received July 2, 1844, as a candidate. 
Dismissed Jan. 5, 1847, to Pby. of Louisville. Received Jan. 8, 
1850, from Pby. of Louisville. Dismissed Jan. 5, 1852, to Pby. of 
Mississippi. Ordained April 4, 1852. Died June 9, 1885. 

No. 408. David R. McCoy. Received July 2, 1844, as a candidate. 
Licensed July 7, 1846. Dismissed Nov. 21, 1848, to Pby. of West 
Jersey. Ordained Dec. 14, 1848. Received April 7, 1851, from 
Pby. of West Jersey. Died Jan. 18, 1854. 

No. 409. George W. Perkin. Received July 2, 1844, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 8, 1846. Dismissed Jan. 4, 1848, to Pby. of 
Luzerne. 

No. 410. Thomas Mason. Received July 2, 1844, as a candidate. 

No. 411. "William Cameron. Received Oct. 1, 1844, as a candidate 
from Pby. of Winchester. Dismissed Jan. 5, 1847, to Pby. of Win- 
chester. Ordained Oct. 20, 1865. Died May 10, 1879. 

No. 412. George K. Marriner. Received Oct. 1, 1844, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Jan. 6, 1852. Dismissed July 7, 1856, to Pby. of 
Long Island. Died Sept. 5, 1869. 

No. 413. John "W. "Teomans. Received Jan. 7, 1845, from Pby. of 
Newton. Dismissed Nov. 11, 1845, to Pby. of Northumberland. 
Ordained Nov. 1828. Died June 22, 1863. D.D. 

No. 414. Daniel Gaston. Received Jan. 8, 1845, from Pby. of 
Luzerne. Organized July 12, 1838. Installed Jan. 21, 1845, Pastor 
of Cohocsink Ch. Transferred Dec. 4, 1860, at the formation of 
Central Pby. of Phila. Died April 29, 1865. 

No. 415. Ebenezer Erskine. Received Jan. 6, 1846, as a candi- 
date. Licensed July 7, 1847. Ordained Sept. 11, 1849. Installed 
Sept. 11, 1849, Pastor of Penn Ch., Phila. Released Jan. 7, 1851. 
Dismissed April 7, 1851, to Pby. of Donegal. D.D. 

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No. 416. James "W. Dale. Received April 7, 3 846, from Pby. of 
New Castle. Installed Maj 17, 1846, Pastor of Ridley and Middle- 
town. Released from Ridley April 8, 1858. Installed Oct. 6, 1866, 
Pastor of Media. Transferred June, 1870, at tlie reunion, to Pby. 
of Chester. Died April 19, 1881. D.D. 

No. 417. Samuel M. Malcomson. Received April 7, 1846, as a 
candidate. 

No. 418. James Gr. Shinn. Received April 8, 1846, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 7, 1847. Dismissed July 4, 1848, to Pby. of Iowa. 
Ordained Nov. 3, 1848. Received April 5, 1852, from Pby. of Iowa. 
Installed Jan. 26, 1853, Pastor of Richmond. Transferred Dec. 4, 
1860, at the formation of Central Pby. of Phila. 

No. 419. Daniel N. Freeland. Received Feb. 7, 1846, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 7, 1847. Dismissed Jan. 25, 1848, to Pby. of 
Hudson. Ordained March 7, 1848. 

No. 420. Caspar R. Gregory. Receiv^ed Jan. 5, 1847, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 5, 1848. Ordained May 20, 1849. Dismissed 
July 7, 1851, to Pby. of Mohawk. Died Feb. 26, 1882. D.D. 

No. 421. Henry D. Gregory. Received Jan. 6, 1847, as a candi- 
date. 

No. 422. Robert L. Anderson. Received Jan. 5, 1847, as a licen- 
tiate from Pby. of New Castle. License recalled July 4, 1848. 

No. 423. Alexander W. Sproull. Received Jan. 6, 1847, as a 
candidate. Licensed April 7, lb53. Dismissed July 5, 1853, to 
Pby. of Georgia. Ordained Oct. 30, 1853. Received July 7, 1856, 
from Pby. of Florida. Installed Sept. 16, 1856, Pastor of Chester. 
Transferred June, 1870, at the reunion, to Pby. of Chester. 

No. 424. Charles G. Bre'wster. Received April 6, 1847, as a can- 
didate from Phila. Pres. Ref. Pres. Ch. Licensed April 7, 1847. 
License revoked April 6, 1855. 

No. 425. William Graham. Received July 7, 1847, as a minister 
on examination. Dismissed April 5, 1848, to Pby. of West Jersey. 

No. 426. Alexander McColl. Received Oct. 5, 1847, from United 
Pres. Ch. of Scotland. 

No. 427. Samuel Stevenson. Received Oct. 5, 1847, from Ref. 
Pres. Phila. Suspended Oct. 14, 1856. 

No. 428. William E. Jones. Received Oct. 6, 1847, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Oct. 5, 1852. Dismissed April 24, 1854, to Pby. of 
Troy. Ordained June 22, 1854. D.D. 

No. 429. Wm. Chester. Received Jan. 4, 1848, from Pby. of 
West Jersey. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1860, to Pby. of Burlington. Or- 
dained July 12, 1820. Died May 23, 1865. D.D. 

No. 430. Robert Watt. Received Jan. 4, 1848, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 9, 1851. Ordained May 4, 1853. Installed May 4, 

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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

1858, Pastor of Westminster Ch. Released June 10, 1863. Dis- 
missed June 10, 1863, to Pby. of Dublin. D.D. 

No. 431. "William R. Bingham. Received .Jan. 25, 1848, from Pby. 
of Donegal. Ordained Feb. 28, 1848. Installed Feb. 28, 1848, 
Pastor of Great Valley and Charleston. Released Jan. 3, 1859. 
Dismissed .Jan. 1861, to Pby. of New Castle. D.D. 

No. 432. Hugh S. Dickson. Ordained May 5, 1843. Received 
April 5, 1848, from Pby. of Fort Wayne. Dismissed .July 4, 1848, 
to Pby. of Albany. Received July 2, 1866, from Pby. of North- 
umberland. Transferred June, 1870, at the reunion, to Pby. of 
Chester. Received Jan. 12, 1874, from Pby. of Chester. Died Oct. 
17, 1887. D.D. 

No. 433. Lewis Cheeseman. Received Oct. 3, 1848, from Pby. of 
Buffalo City. Installed Oct. 3, 1848, Pastor of Fourth Ch. Released 
Oct. 10, 1860. Died Dec. 21, 1861. D.D. 

No. 434. Giles Manwaring. Received Oct. 12, 1848, from Pby. of 
West Jersey. Dismissed .July 7, 1851, to Pby. of Bradford. Or- 
dained Aug. 6, 1844. Died March 13, 1852. 

No. 435. Jacob Belville. Received Jan. 2, 1849, from Pby. of 
Baltimore. Ordained Nov. 1, 1844. Dismissed Sept. 11, 1849, to 
Pby. of Phila. Second. D.D. 

No. 436. "Washington D. McKinley. Received April 5, 1848, as 
a candidate. Licensed April 9, 1851. Dismissed May 6, 1852, to 
Pby. of Mohawk. Ordained Sept. 13, 1852. 

No. 437. Francis G. Umsted. Received April 5, 1848, as a can- 
didate. 

No. 438. Elijah "Wilson. Received April 25, 1849, from Pby. of 
New Castle. Dismissed June 18, 1849, to Pby. of Donegal. Or- 
dained Oct. 12, 1842. 

No. 439. -William Henry Green. Received April 25, 1849, from 
Pby. of New Brunswick. Ordained May 24, 1848. Installed May 
16, 1849, Pastor of Central Ch. Released July 7, 1851. Dismissed 
July 7, 1851, to Pby. of New Brunswick. D.D. 

No. 440. John Douglass. Received Oct. 2, 1849, as a foreign licen- 
tiate on probation from Pby. of Armagh. Withdrawn his papers 
Jan. 8, 1850. 

No. 441. Samuel D. Alexander. Received Oct. 3, 1849, from 
Second Pby. of Phila. Dismissed Jan. 6, 1851, to Pby. of New 
Brunswick. Ordained Nov. 16, 1847. D.D. 

No. 442. Charles "Wadsworth. Received March 11, 1850, Pres- 
bytery of Troy. Ordained b^b. 7, 1842. Installed March 26, 1850, 
AVch St. Ch. Released April 3, 1862, and transferred to Pby. Cali- 
fornia. Received from Kef. Ch. by Pby. Phila. Central Nov. 17, 
1873. Received from Phila. Central, Dec. 2, 1878. Installed March 
25, 1879, Clinton St. Imm. Ch. Died April 2, 1882. D.D. 

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No. 443. James M. Cro"welL Received April 2, 1850, as a can- 
didate. Licensed .Fan. 7, 1851. Dismissed April 7, 1851, to Pby. 
New Castle. Ordained June 3, 1851. Received May 4, 1857, from 
Pbj. New Castle. Installed May 10, 1857, Seventh Ch. Released 
May 5, 1869, and dismissed to Pby. Rochester City. Received Dec. 
19, 1870, from Pby. Rochester. Installed Jan. 12, 1871, Woodland 
Ch. Released May 5, 1883. D.D. 

No. 444. Wm. A. Dod. Received as a licentiate April 4, 1850, 
Pby. New York. Ordained April 25, 1850. Dismissed April 5, 
1852, to Pby. New Brunswick. Died Dec. 31, 1872. 

No. 445. Bernard Steinthal. Received as a licentiate April 4, 
1850, Andover Assn. Ordained Nov. 4, 1851. Suspended Feb. 15, 
1860. 

No. 446, William Black-wood. Received as a foreign Minister on 
probation April 15, 1850, from Pby. New-Castle-upon-Tyne. To 
full membership April 7, 1851. Ordained 1835. Installed Sept. 
17, 1851, Ninth Ch. D.D., LL.D. 

No. 447. John Miller. Received July 2, 1850, Pby. Baltimore. 
Ordained Oct. 30, 1843. Installed July 10, 1850, Eleventh (West 
Arch St.) Ch. Released Dec. 6, 1855. Dismissed April 7, 1858, 
Pby. Lexington. 

No. 448. Lyman Coleman. Received Oct. 15, 1850, Bennington 
Assn. Dismissed April 4, 1860, Hartford South. Assn. D.D. 

No. 449. Thomas "Warren. Received Oct. 1, 1850, as a foreign 
Minister on probation from Pby. Belfast. To full membership Nov. 
24, 1851, and dismissed to Pby. Baltimore. 

No. 450. Charles W. Shields. Received Oct. 1, 1850, Pby. Long 
Island. Ordained Nov. 8, 1849. Installed Oct. 18, 1850, Second 
Ch. Transferred to Central Pby., Phila., Dec. 4, I860. Released 
Oct. 2, 1865. Transferred June, 1870, at the Reunion, to Pby. New 
Brunswick. D.D. 

No. 451. James A. SafiFord. Received Oct. 1, 1850, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 9, 1851. Dismissed April 5, 1853, to Pby. East Han- 
over. Ordained Feb. 9, 1855. Died July 10, 1881. D.D. 

No. 452. James R. Moore. Received Oct. 1, 1850, as a candidate. 
Dismissed Oct. 6, 1851, Pby. Washington. Died Dec. 12, 1864. 

No. 453. Robert A. Crisvsrell. Received Oct. 1, 1850, as a candi- 
date. Licensed Jan. 6, 1852. Dismissed Oct. 5, 1853, Pby. of San- 
gamon. Ordained Nov. 10, 1853. 

No. 454. Thomas R. Markham. Received Oct. 1, 1850, as a can- 
didate. Dismissed Jan. 2, 1855, Pby. Yazoo. Ordained May 24, 
1857. D.D. 

No. 455. J. Martin Connell. Received Oct. 2, 1850, as a licentiate. 
Killed by railroad accident Aug. 29, 1855. 

No. 456. John Leyburn. Received Jan. 6, 1851, Pby. East Han- 
over. Name dropped April 26, 1864. D.D. 

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No. 457. William C. Windel. Received Jan. 6, 1851, on proba- 
tion from Pbv. Temple Patrick, Ireland. To full membership Oct. 
20, 1852. Dismissed Jan. 4, 1853, Pby. New Castle. 

No. 458. John Jones. Received April 5, 1851, as a candidate. 
Licensed May 5, 1853. Dismissed .July 3, 1854, Pby. Genessee 
River. Ordained March 3, 1855. Received April 5, 1886, Pby. 
Louisville. D.D. 

No. 459. William C. Stitt. Received April 8, 1851, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 5, 1860. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1860, Pby. 
Potomac. Ordained May 23, 1863, Pby. Carlisle. 

No. 460. Robert Gamble. Received .July 7. 1851, as a candidate. 
Licensed April 3, 1856. Dismissed July 6, 1857, to Pby. Donegal. 
Ordained Oct. 17, 1857. Received May 7, 1860, Pby. Donegal. 
Installed May 18, 1860, Union Ch. Released Jan. 2, 1865. Dis- 
missed Jan. 2, 1866, Pby. New Castle. Received Oct. 4, 1886, Pby. 
Westminster. Installed May 12, 1887, Union Ch. 

No. 461. Francis D. Ladd. Received Oct. 6, 1851, Pby. Sus- 
quehanna. Installed Nov. 15, 1851, Penn Ch. (N. 10th St.). 
Transferred by division of Pby. Dec. 4, 1860, to Central Pby. 
Phila. Died July 7, 1862. 

No. 462. Clark Louden. Received as a foreign licentiate on pro- 
bation Oct. 7, 1851, from Pby. Newry, Ireland. To full member- 
ship Oct. 29, 1852. Ordained and installed Feb. 9, 1853, Fifteenth 
Ch. Released Jan. 8, 1861. Dismissed April 6, 1863, Pby. 
Sangamon. 

No. 463. Jacob D. Dudley. Received Nov. 24, 1851, Pby. East 
Hanover. Installed Dec. 21, 1851, Crookville Ch. Released Oct. 
4, 1854. Dismissed April 5, 1855, Pby. West Hanover. 

No. 464. William H. RufiFner. Received Jan. 5, 1852, as a licen- 
tiate Pby. West Hanover. Ordained and installed Jan. 14, 1852, 
Seventh Church. Released April 6, 1853. Dismissed April 5, 
1854, Pby. Lexington. Demitted, 1874. LL.D. 

No. 465. James A. Paige. Received as a candidate Jan. 5, 1852, 
Pby. New Brunswick. Licensed Jan. 6, 1852. Dismissed Oct. 6, 
1853, Pby. St. Louis. Ordained Nov. 11, 1855. 

No. 466. William E. Schenck. Received April 5, 1852, Pby. 
New Brunswick. Ordained Feb. 28, 1843. Supt. Church Exten- 
sion, 1852-54 Editor Pres. Bd. Publication, 1862-70. Cor. Sec. 
Pres. Bd. Publication, 1854-86. D.D. 

No. 467. Robert A. Brown. Received as a candidate April 5, 
1852. Licensed April 3, 1856. Dismissed Dec. 1, 1856, Pby. Chi- 
cago. Ordained Dec. 14, 1856. Received to Central Pby. Phila., 
Aug. 26, 1868, from Pby. Donegal. Installed May 15, 1870, 
Trinity Ch. June, 1870, Pby. of Phila. Central at the reunion. 
Released April 2, 1873. Died Nov. 21, 1875. 

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No. 468. Adolphus Henry Epstein. Received as a candidate 

April 6, 1852. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1854, Pbj. Charleston. 
No. 469. Aaron P. Forman. Received as a candidate Julj 6, 1852. 

Licensed .Jan. 4, 1853. Dismissed April 7, 1853, Pbj. Palmyra. 

Ordained April 2, 1854. Died Oct. 14, 1875. D.D. 
No. 470. Joseph Nesbit. Received as a licentiate July 6, 1852, 

Ass. Pby. Albany. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1852, Second Pby. Pliila. D.D. 
No. 471. Thomas Mack. Received July 6, 1852, Pby. Newton. 

Dismissed Jan. 2, 1854, Pby. Hudson. 

No. 472. Elisha B. Cleghorn, Received and licensed July 7, 1852. 
Dismissed April 4, lb55, Pby. Lexington. Received April 3, 1856, 
Pby. Lexington. Dismissed April 4, 1856, Pby. Baltimore. Ordained 
June 3, 1856. Received Nov. 16, 1874, Classis of New York. Dis- 
missed May 6, 1878, Pby. Albany. Received to Phila. Central Pby. 
June 30, 1879, from Pby. Albany. Died Dec. 14, 1881. 

No. 473. Henry Steele Clark. Received July 12, 1852, Pby. Lon- 
donderry. Ordained, 1843, by Pby. Cleveland, Installed Sept. 8, 

1852, Central Church. Transferred by division of Pby. Dec. 4, 1860, 
to Central Pby. Philada. Died Jan. 17, 1864. D.D.' 

No. 474. Charles Rockwell. Received Oct. 15, 1852, Pby. 
Michigan. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1854, Pby. Londonderry. 

No. 475. Benjamin Moxey. Received as a candidate Jan. 3, 1863. 
Name withdrawn Oct. 6, 1863. 

No. 476. George O. Barnes. Received as a candidate Jan. 3, 1853. 
Licensed April 6, 1854. Dismissed June 15, 1854, Pby. Transyl- 
vania. 

No. 477. "Winthrop Tappan. Received as a candidate Jan. 3, 1853. 
Licensed July 5-, 1853. Name dropped from the roll. 

No. 478. J. Henry Kauffman. Received as a candidate Jan. 3, 

1853. Licensed April 7, 1853. Dismissed April 5, 1854, Pby. 
Baltimore. Ordained .Jan. 12, 1854. Died Oct. 27, 1873. 

No. 479. James McCaskie. Received as a foreign licentiate on 
probation Jan. 28, Ibb'S, Pby. Strabane, Ireland. To full member- 
ship July 3, 1854. Ordained and installed July 12, 1854, South- 
western Church. Transferred with his church Oct. 3, 1860, to 
Third Pby. Phila. Released June 20, 1864, and dismissed to Pby. 
Strabane, Ireland. 

No. 480. William O. Johnstone. Received Jan. 28, 1852, Ass. 
Ref. Pby. Phila. Ordained Dec. 25, 1845, by Pby. Northumber- 
land, England. Installed May 1, 1853, First Secession Church of 
Kensington. Transferred by division of Presbytery to Central Pby. 
of Phila., and to Pby. Phila. Central at the reunion June 23, 1870, 
Died Jan. 16, 1882. D.D. 

No. 481. Josias H. Young. Received as a candidate Oct. 5, 1853. 
Licensed April 2, 1862. Dismissed Oct. 5, 1863, Pby. Northumber- 
land. Ordained 1863. 
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No. 482. Henry C. Cameron. Received as a candidate Oct. 5, 
1855, Pby. Baltimore. Licensed Oct. 5, 1859. Ordained Feb. 1, 
1863. Transferred to Pbj. New Brunswick, June, 1870, at the 
reunion. D.D. 

No. 483. Henry R. Avery. Received as a candidate April 5, 1853. 
Licensed April 6, 1855. Dismissed Jan. 5, 1857, Pby. New Bruns- 
wick. Ordained Feb. 24, 1857. 

No. 484. J. Aspin-wall Hodge. Received April 5, 1854. Licensed 
April 3, 1856. Dismissed Jan. 5, 1857, Pby. Luzerne. Ordained 
April 22, 1857. D.D. 

No. 485. Joseph H. Carroll. Received April 5, 1854. Licensed 
July 3, 1854. Dismissed April 4, 1855, Pby. New Brunswick. 
Ordained May 30, 1855. D.D. 

No. 486. J. Howard Nixon. Received April 5, 1854. Licensed 
April 6, 1855. Dismissed May 6, 1856, Pby. Troy. Ordained 
June 26, 1856. D.D. 
No. 487. Samuel H. McMuUin. Received April 5, 1854. Licensed 
Oct. 4, 1854. Dismissed April 2, 1856, Pby. North River. Ordained 
Oct. 16, 1856. Received June 5, 1860, Pby. North River. Dis- 
missed June 5, 1860, Pby. Baltimore. Received Jan. 6, 1865, 
Pby. Long Island. Dismissed Oct 5, 1868, Pby. Oxford. D.D. 
No. 488. Ebenezer P. Rogers. Received April 24, 1854, Pby. 
Hopewell. Ordained Nov. 4, 1840. Installed May 3, 1854, Seventh 
(Tabernacle) Ch. Released Oct. 1, 1856, and dismissed to Classis 
of Albany. Died Oct. 22, 1881. D.D. 
No. 489. John B. Ripley. Received May 3, 1854, Pby. Burling- 
ton. Ordained and installed July 11, 1854. Mariners' Ch. Died 
Feb. 7, 1862. 
No. 490. Samuel Phillips, Jr. Received July 3, 1854, as a can- 
didate. 
No. 491. James Montgomery. Received as a candidate July 3, 

1854. 
No. 492. David Longmore. Received Oct. 4, 1854, Pby. North- 
umberland. Died Sept. 12, 1855. 
No. 493. David MagiU. Received Oct. 4, 1854, Pby. London on 
probation. To full membership Nov. 12, 1855. Installed Jan. 13, 
1857, U-nion Ch. Released and dismissed to Pby. Londonderry, 
July 5, 1859. 
No. 494. James Y. Mitchell. Received Oct. 4, 1854. Licensed 
April 1, 1857. Dismissed July 6, 1857, Pby. Newtown. Ordained 
July 14, 1857. Received to Fourth Pby. Phila. Oct. 15, 1862, Pby. 
Newton. Installed Oct. 22, 1862, Central (Temple) Ch. Trans- 
ferred June, 1870, at the reunion to Pby. Phila. Central. Released 
and dismissed to Pby. Westminster June 26, 1876. D.D. 
No. 495. John Thompson Osier. Received Oct, 4, 1854, as a can- 
didate. Transferred April 3, 1862, Central Pby. Phila. Licensed 

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.April 3, 1862. Ordained April 3, 1865. Dismissed Jan. 15, 1866. 
Pby. Carlisle. 

No. 496. Alexander H. F. Williamson. Received as a candidate 
Oct. 4, 1854. 

No. 497. George Morton. Received Oct. 5, 1854, Pby. of Blairs- 
ville. Ordained 1846. Dismissed April 4, 1855, to Pby. of Blairs- 
ville. Received July 16, 1860, Pby. Salsburg. 

No. 498. Wm. T. Catto. Received Oct 5, 18"54, from the Methodist 
Church. Installed April 22, 1855, African First Ch. Released and 
dismissed to Pby. of District of Columbia Oct. 27, 1857. 

No. 499. John A. Buckner. Received as a candidate Jan. 2, 1855. 
Dismissed April 2, 1857, to Central Pby. of Mississippi. 

No. 500. Ebenezer Jones. Received Jan. 2, 1855, as a candidate. 

No. 501. James I. Helm. Received April 4, 1855, Pby. Newton. 
Ordained June 23, 1838. Withdrew to Episcopal Church July 6, 
1859. Died Oct. 15, 1886. D.D. 

No. 502. Ephraim D. Saunders. Received April 4, 1855, Pby. of 
West Jersey. Transferred April 9, 1861, to Central Pby. Phila. 
June, 1870, to Phila. Central Pby. Died Sept. 13, 1872. D.D. 

No. 503. Edward L. Dodder. Received April 5, 1855, Pby. of 
Ohio. Licensed April 6, 1855. Dismissed April 2, 1856, Pby. of 
Dubuque. Ordained Oct. 7, 1856. 

No. 504. John L. Thompson. Received April 5, 1855, as a can- 
didate. 

No. 505. Lambert S. Fine. Received April 5, 1855, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 1, 1857. Dismissed April 7, 1858, Pby. of 
Carlisle. Ordained April, 1858. Died March 5, 1869. 

No. 506. John H. Sargent. Received April 5, 1856, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 3, 1856. Dismissed April 22, 1861, Pby. of 
Ohio. Ordained June 26, 1861. 

No. 507. "Willard M. Rice. Received July 2, 1855, as a candidate. 
Licensed July 7, 1856. Ordained and installed Moyamensing Ch. 
Oct. 18, 1858. Released October 15, 1863. Installed April 10, 
1864, Tenth Church. Released April 24, 1874. Dismissed June 8, 
1874, Pby. of Chester. Received May 7, 1877, Pby. of Chester. 
Clerk Pby. of Phila. 1858-74, 1877- D.D. 

No. 508. Charles H. Ewing. Received July 2, 1855, Pby. West 
Jersey. Ordained 1842. Transferred Oct. 1861, to Central Pby. 
Phila. Received April 1, 1862, from Central Pby. Phila. Installed 
April 19, 1864, Mariners' Ch. Released July 6, 1868. Died March 
15, 1885. 

No. 509. Archibald P. Cobb. Received Oct. 3, 1855, Pby. 
Newark. Ordained April 19, 1854. Installed Dec. 23, 1855, South 
Ch. Released Oct. 10, 1861. Dismissed May 16, 1863, Pby. Mon- 
mouth. Died Feb. 26, 1881. 

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No. 510. John Jones. Received as a candidate Oct. 4, 1855. Dis- 
missed July 6, 1858, Second Pby. Phila. 

No. 511. Levi H. Christian. Received Nov. 12, 1855, Pby. Ox- 
ford. Ordained Oct. 3, 1846, Pby. of Winchester. Installed Nov. 
12, 1855, North Church. Transferred Dec. 4, 1860, to Central Pby., 
Philada., by division of Pby. Died Oct. 23, 1864. 

No. 512. Robert Crawford. Received Nov. 12, 1855, Berkshire 
North Assn. Ordained August 20, 1840. Installed Nov. 25, 
Crookville Ch. Released April 2, 1857. Dismissed Jan. 4, 1858, 
Franklin Assn., Mass. 

No. 513. Walter Po-well. Received Jan. 7, 1856, as a candidate. 
Dismissed April 2, 1856, Pby. Troy. Ordained July 9, 1857, Pby. 
Donegal. Died .Jan. 23, 1868. 

No. 514. Robert Edgar. Received Jan. 7, 1856, as a candidate. 
Dismissed Oct. 3, 1860, Pby. Troy. Ordained April 29, 1867. 

No. 515. James H. Callan, Received April 2, 1856, Pby. Red- 
stone. Dismissed July 6, 1858, Pby. Luzerne. 

No. 516. James "W. Olmstead. Received April 2, 1856, Pby. 
Eastern Shore. Ordained June, 1845. Transferred Feb. 27, 1861, 
by division of Pby. to Central Pby., Phila. Died Oct. 16, 1870. 
D.D. 

No. 517. Rudolph A. Renz. Received as a candidate April 2, 
1856. Died in Princeton Theo. Seminary, 1857. 

No. 518. John T. Cowhick. Received April 2, 1856, as a candi- 
date. Dismissed Oct. 7, 1857, Pby. Columbia. Ordained May 6, 
1859, Pby. Donegal. D.D. 

No. 519. Robert B. Williamson. Licensed July 7, 1856. Dis- 
missed March 19, 1860, Pby. Tombeekbee. 

No. 520. Thomas H. Amos. Received April 2, 1856, as a candi- 
date. Dismissed Jan. 3, 1859, Pby. New Castle. 

No. 521. William E. Boardman. Received April 2, 1856, Pby. 
Detroit. Dismissed Jan. 4, 1860, Pby. California. Received Oct. 
1864, Pby. Stockton. Transferred June, 1870, Pby. New York. 

No. 522. Edward P. Capp. Received April 3, 1856, as a candi- 
date. Dismissed Jan. 7, 1867, Central Pby. Phila. Ordained 
April 19, 1869. Died Oct. 26, 1873. 

No. 523. William J. Day. Received April 3, 1856, as a candidate. 
Dismissed Oct. 8, 1861, Central Pby. Phila. Licensed Jan. 2, 1865. 
Dismissed July 3, 1865, Pby. Luzerne. Ordained Sept. 21, 1865. 

No. 524. William P. Breed. Received May 26, 1856, Pby. Steu- 
benville. Ordained Dec. 15, 1847. Installed June 4, 1856, West 
Spruce St. Ch. Released Nov. 7, 1887, Pastor Emeritus. D.D. 

No. 525. Nathaniel West. Received Oct. 1, 1856, Pby. Redstone. 
Ordained 1821, Council of Independents, Hull, England. Installed 
Dec. 27, 1857, Belmont Ch. Released July 16, 1860. Installed 

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July 18, 1860, Hestonville Ch. Transferred by division of Pbj. 
Dec. 4, 1860, Central Pbj. Phila. Pastoral relation dissolved 
July 7, 1862. Died Sept. 2, 1864. D.D. 

No. 526. Isaac Newton Baker. Received Oct. 1, 1856, as a can- 
didate. Name dropped at his own request. 

No. 527. Joseph D. Smith. Received April 1, 1857, as a candi- 
date. Licensed April 7, 1859. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1860, Pby. Don- 
egal. Ordained Oct. 30, 1860. 

No. 528. Joseph F. Jennison. Received July 6, 1857, Pby. Eliza- 
bethtown. Ordained and installed Nov. 4, 1857, Phcenixville Ch. 
Released July 25, 1859. Dismissed Feb. 27, 1861, Pby. Michigan. 
Received July 2, 1866, Pby. Michigan. Dismissed Oct. 19, 1866, 
Second Pby. Phila. 

No. 529. Sketohley M. Pearce. Received July 6, 1857, as a can- 
didate. Dismissed Oct. 7, 1862, Central Pby. Phila. Licensed 
April 4, 1864. Dismissed April 2, 1866, Pby. Southern Minn. Or- 
dained April 27, 1866. 

No. 530. F. Donleavy Long. Received July 6, 1857, as a candi- 
date. Dismissed Jan. 7, 1862, Central Pby. Phila. 

No. 531. Jonathan Edwards. Received Oct. 7, 1857, Pby. Fort 
Wayne. Ordained April 17, 1844, Pby. Cincinnati. Installed Oct. 
7, 1857, West Arch St. Ch. Transferred Dec. 4, 1860, by division 
of Pby. to Central Pbv. Phila. Released March 13, 1866. Dis- 
missed April 2, 1866, Pby. Ohio. D.D. 

No. 532. Alfred Nevin. Received April 16, 1858, Pby. Donegal. 
Ordained Sept. 1840, Pby. Newcastle. Installed April 18, 1858, 
Alexander Ch. Transferred by division of Pby. Dec. 4, 1860, Cen- 
tral Pby. Phila. Pastoral relation dissolved Jan. 7, 1861, Phila. 
Received at the reunion June, 1870, from Central Pby. Installed 
.Jan. 22, 1871, West Chestnut St. Ch. Released Feb. 3, 1873. D.D., 
LL.D. 

No. 533. Robert M. Patterson. Received as a candidate April 
16, 1858. Licensed July 7, 1858. Ordained and installed Aug. 25, 
1859, Great Valley Ch. Transferred Dec. 4, 1860, to Central Pby. 
Phila. Pastoral relation dissolved June 24, 1867. Received July 
1, 1867, Central Pby. Phila. Installed Oct. 31, 1867, South Ch. 
Released Jan. 3, 1881. Dismissed April 13, 1885, Pby. Chester. 
D.D., LL.D. 

No. 534. Wm. H. Dinsmore. Received May 5, 1858, Pby. Iowa. 
Licensed April 5, 1860. Dismissed Jan. 7, 1861, Pby. Carlisle. 
Ordained Nov. 19, 1861. Died May 26, 1877. 

No. 535. Edward Payson Wood. Received May 5, 1858. 
Licensed July 2, 1861. Transferred June 3, 1883, Pby. New 
Brunswick. Ordained 1883. 

No. 536. John Rice Wood. Received May 5, 1858. Licensed 
April 7, 1859. Died Sept. 7, 1860. 

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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

No. 537. Jacob D. "Weidman. Received Oct. 6, 1858. Licensed 
April 7, 1859. Dismissed July 16, 1860, Pby. Luzerne. Ordained 
Jan. 24, 1860. 

No. 538. Richard B. Westbrook. Received Oct. 13, 1858, Pby. 
Burlington. Dismissed April 2, 1861. Certificate not used. Sus- 
pended Oct. 13, 1864. Restored July 3, 1865. Dismissed Oct. 1, 
1865. Certificate of dismission renewed Oct. 1, 1866. Certificate 
of dismission returned and ministry and membership in Pres. 
Church renounced, Oct. 25, 1866. Name struck from roll Jan. 7, 
1867. D.D. 

No. 539. John P. Cowan. Received Jan. 4, 1859. Licensed April 
5, 1860. Dismissed April 2, 1861, Pby. Lafayette. Ordained May 
17, 1863. D.D. 

No. 540. 'William J. Bridells. Received July 5, 1859. Licensed 
April 29, 1867. Dismissed Oct. 5, 1868, Pby. Donegal. 

No. 541. Henry B. Townsend. Received as a candidate July 5, 
1859. Dismissed April 2, 1861, Central Pby. Phila. Licensed July 
7, 1862. Dismissed April 6, 1863, Second Pby. Phila. Ordained 
May 5, 1863. 

No. 542. Matthew Ne"wkirk. Received as a candidate July 5, 
1859. Transferred Jan. 7, 1861, to Central Pby. Phila. Licensed 
Jan. 7, 1861. Dismissed April 2, 1862, Pby. New Castle. Ordained 
April 24, 1862. Received by Central Pby. Phila., Jan. 11, 1869, 
from Pby. New Castle. Installed Jan. 7, 1869, North Tenth St. Ch. 
June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. Pastoral relation dissolved May 
5, 1873. Installed June 1, 1873, Bethlehem Ch. Released Dec. 10, 
1883. Installed Sept. 12, 1886, Coll. Pastor Bethesda Ch. 

No. 543. William H. Hodge. Received as a candidate July 5, 
1859. Transferred April 2, 1861, to Central Pby. Phila. Licensed 
April 3, 1861. Ordained Jan. 5, 1864. Dismissed Jan. 5, 1864, 
Pby. Connecticut. Received April 19, 1870, from Pby. Connecticut. 
Installed June 20, 1870, Columbia Ave. Ch. Transferred June, 
1870, to Phila. Central Pby. 

No. 544. George H. Webster. Received and licensed July 6, 
1859. Dismissed May 7, 1860, Pby. Omaha. 

No. 545. Thomas J. Richmond. Received July 6, 1859, Mendon 
Assoc, Mass. Dismissed April 5, 1860, Taunton Assoc, Mass. 

No. 546. James C. Laverty. Received as a candidate April 24, 
1855, by Fourth Pby. Phila. Licensed Oct. 8, 1856. Transferred 
Oct. 7, 1857, to Third Pby. Phila. Ordained and installed Oct. 
2d, 1857, Marple Ch. Released July 25, 1859. Transferred Oct, 5, 
1859, to Pby. Phila. Dismissed May 1, 1860, Second Pby. Phila. 

No. 547. Herman Reiner. Received as a candidate Oct. 5, 1859. 
Transferred April 2, 1861, Central Pby. Phila. Name dropped 
April 4, 1865. 

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No. 548. Hugh S. Alexander. Recei\^ed as a candidate Oct. 6, 

1859. Licensed April 5, ISdO. Transferred Oct. 1, 1860, Second 
Pby. Phila. Ordained Sept. 3, 1861, Pbj. Roanoke. D.D. 

No. 549. Charles Nelson. Received Jan. 3, 1860, as a candidate. 
No further record. 

No. 550. "William R. "Work. Received .Jan. 20, 1860, Second 
Pby. Phila. Ordained Dec. 3, 1840, Pbj. New Castle. Transferred 
Feb. 27, 1861, Central Pby. Phila., June, 1870, Phila. Central. 
Died Dec. 27, 1882. 

No. 551. Jos. "W, Porter. Received Jan. 3, 1860, Pby. Luzerne. 
Ordained and installed March 19, 1860, Phoenixville and Charleston 
Ch. Transferred Dec. 4, 1860, Central Pby. Phila. Released Jan. 
10, 1870. Transferred June, 1870, Pby. Chester. 

No. 552. Charles T. McMullin. Received Jan. 4, 1860, as a can- 
didate. Licensed April 2, 1862. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1864, Pby. 
West Jersey. Ordained Nov. 1, 1864. 

No. 553. "Wm. M. Cornell. Received .Tan. 1, 1860, Suffolk Asso., 
Mass. Transferred Jan. 7, 1861, Central Pby. Phila. Phila. 
Central June, 1870. Dismissed Oct. 5, 1870. 

No. 554. Henry D. Losch. Received March 5, 1860, Del. Cong. 
Asso. N. York. Dismissed April 2, 1861, Westmoreland Classis 
Ref. Germ. Ch. Received April 3, 1877, by Phila. Central Pby. 
from Ref. Ch. Name struck from roll Dec. 1, 1879. 

No. 555. "Wm. J. Hopkins. Received April 4, 1860, as an inde- 
pendent minister from Wales on probation. No other record. 

No. 556. AndreTV J. Johnson. Received April 4, 1860, Pby. Car- 
lisle. Licensed April 5, 1860. Dismissed Jan. 7, 1861, Pby. New- 
Orleans. Ordained April, 1861. Demitted ministry Dec. 1, 1868. 

No. 557. J. Logan Sample. Received April 4, 1860. Licensed 
April 2, 1862. Dismissed Oct. 15, 1863, Pby. Redstone. Ordained 
April 27, 1864. 

No. 558. Morris C Sutphen. Received May 1, 1860, Pby. Eliza- 
bethtown. Ordained and installed May 1, 1860, Co-Pastor Spring 
Garden Ch. Transferred Dec. 4, 1860, Central Pby. Phila. Re- 
leased and dismissed to 2d Pby. New York, April 13, 1866. Died 
June 18, 1875. D.D. 

No. 559. J. Addison Henry. Received as a licentiate June 5, 

1860, Pby. New Brunswick. Ordained and installed June 5, 1860, 
Princeton Ch. Transferred Dec. 4, i860. Central Pby. Phila. 
June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. D.D. 

No. 560. Francis J. Collier. Received July 2, 1860. Licensed 
April 2, 1862. Dismissed Oct. 15, 1863, Pby. Ohio. Ordained 
April 27, 1864. Received April 2, 1872, Pby. Pittsburgh. Dis- 
missed Oct. 1, 1872, Pby. Chester. D.D. 

No. 561. Alfred H. Kellogg. Received as a candidate July 2. 
1860. Transferred Jan. 7, 1861, Central Pby. Phila. Licensed 

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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

April 3, 1861. Dismissed Oct. 7, 1862, 2d Pby. Phila. Ordained 
Oct. 22, 1862. Received by Phila. Central Pby. Sept. 1, 1873, from 
Pby. of New York. Installed Sept. 15, 1873, Central Ch. Re- 
leased Oct. 6, 1874. D.D. 
No. 562. Lewis D. Huntley. Received as a candidate Oct. 4, 

1860. Killed at the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. 

No. 563. George Locker. Received Oct. 10, 1860, from the United 
Brethren. Transferred Jan. 7, 1861, Central Pby. Phila. Or- 
dained Feb. 8, 1861, Pastor 1st German Ch. Transferred Jan. 16, 
1866, to 4th Pby. Phila. Transferred June, 1870, to Pby. Phila. 
Central. Died Jan. 24, 1887. 

No. 564. SilianBonhomme. Received Jan. 7, 1861, Ref. Pby. 
Phila. Ordained. Died Dec. 30, 1882. 

No. 565. AlansonHartpence. Received Jan. 7, 1861, Pby. Muncie. 
Dismissed April 2, 1861, 2d Pby. Phila. 

No. 566. Robert J. O. Moore. Received April 2, 1861. Licensed 
April 2, 1866. Dismissed Oct. 7, 1867, Pby. Coleraine, Ireland. 
Ordained July 2, 1869, Pby. Bailieborough, Ireland. 

No. 567. Thomas Johnston. Received April 2, 1861. Licensed 
Jan. 6, 1863. Dismissed Jan. 6, 1863, Pby. Belfast. Ordained 
Oct. 22, 1863, Pby. Bailieborough, Ireland. 

No. 568. Philip H. Mowry. Received as a licentiate Oct. 1, 1861, 
Pby. Allegheny City. Ordained and installed Oct. 1, 1861, Fourth 
Ch. Released Oct. 15, 1863. Dismissed Jan. 11, 1864, Pby. Car- 
lisle. D.D. 

No. 569. Wm. Preeland. Received as a foreign Minister on pro- 
bation Oct. 1, 1861. To full membership Nov. 10, 1862. Dismissed 
July 6, 1863, Ref. Pby. New York. 

No. 570. F. Reck Harbaugh. Received Oct. 10, 1861, Pby. New- 
ton. Ordained Oct. 26, 1853, Pby. New Brunswick. Installed Oct. 
14, 1861, Sixth Ch. Phila. Released Oct. 4, 1869. Dismissed Nov. 
11, 1872, Pby. Newton. 

No. 571. James H. Baird. Received Dec. 2, 1861, Pby. Lafayette. 
Installed Dec. 17, 1861, Fifteenth Ch, Released Jan. 5, 1863. Dis- 
missed Oct. 7, 1873, Pby. Baltimore. 

No. 572. Nathaniel W. Conkling. Received as a licentiate Dec. 
17, 1871, Pby. Allegheny City. Ordained and installed Dec. 26, 

1861, Scots Ch. Released April 20, 1863. Installed May 17, 1863, 
Arch St. Ch. Released and dismissed Jan. 6, 1868, Pby. New York. 
D.D. 

No. 573. Matthew B. Grier. Received April 1, 1862, Pby. Fay- 
etteville. Ordained Dec. 3, 1847, Pby. Baltimore. Transferred 
June, 1870, to Pby. Phila. North. Received Oct. 14, 1873. Dis- 
missed March 4, 1878, Pby. Chester. Received May 2, 1887, Pby. 
Chester. Ed. Presbyterian. D.D. 

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No. 574. Thomas G. "Wall. Eeceived Oct. 7, 1862, Pbj. Orange. 
Ordained Oct. 17, 1852, Pbj. Wincliester. Dismissed Jan. 26, 1865, 
2d Pbj. New York. 

No. 575. Wm. C. Smith. Received Nov. 10, 1862, Pby. Flint 
River. Dismissed April 6, 1863, Pbv. Huntingdon. 

No. 576. Samuel P. Herron. Received Jan. 5, 1863, Ref. Pbj. 
Phila. Dismissed Oct. 2, 1865, Pbj. Northumberland. 

No. 577. Wm. McElwee. Received June 10, 1863, Big Spring 
Pbj. U. P. Ch. Installed June 21, 1863, Fifteentli Ch. Released 
and dismissed June 6, 1870, Pby. Maumee. 

No. 578. John Moore. Received Nov. 23, 1863, Salem Cong. Asso., 
Mass. Installed Dec. 20, 1863, South Ch. Released Oct. 29, 1866. 
Trpvusferred June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. 

No. 579. David A. Cunningham. Received Jan. 11, 1864, Pby. 
Allegheny. Installed Jan. 18, 1864, Scots Ch. Released and dis- 
missed to Central Pby. Phila., May 24, 1866. Installed June 20, 
1866, Spring Garden Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central 
Pby. Released April 13, 1876. Dismissed Sept. 4, 1876, Pby. 
Washington, W. Va. D.D. 

No. 580. Thomas MoCauley. Received April 4, 1864, Pby. Long 
Island. Ordained June 5, lb55, by Pby. Long Island. Dismissed 
July 10, 1867, Pby. Newton. D.D. 

No. 581. Gabriel S.Thompson. Received April 4, 1864. Licensed 
July 6, 1829. Dismissed July 6, 1869, to Pby. Knox. 

No. 582. Joseph Thompson. Received April 4, 1864. Licensed 
Dec. 8, 1868. Ordained and dismissed to Pby. Nashville July 6, 
1869. 

No. 583. Wm. H. Gill. Received as a candidate Oct. 3, 1864, Pby. 
Allegheny City. Dismissed July 2. 1866, Pby. Ohio. Ordained 
June 26, 1867, Pby. Blairsville. Received Oct. 4, 1886, Pby. Bing- 
hamton. Installed May 12, 1887, Evangel Ch. 

No. 584. Robert Irvine. Received Oct. 3, 1864, as a foreign min- 
ister on probate, Pby. Hamilton, Canada. Certificate from Pby. of 
Hamilton endorsed and returned to that Pby. Nov. 21, 1865. D.D. 

No. 585. Francis Heyl, Jr. Received Jan. 2, 1865. Licensed 
July 8, 1867. Ordained July 10, 1867. Dismissed Oct. 23, 1868, 
Pby. Furrukurbad. 

No. 586. Henry Reeves. Received Jan. 26, 1865, Pby. Carlisle. 
Transferred June, 1870, Pby. West Jersey. Ordained Nov. 12, 
1850, Pby. Newton. 

No. 587. Samuel T. Lo'wrie. Received May 9, 1865, Pby. Hunt- 
ingdon. Ordained Dec. 8, 1888, by P))y. Huntingdon. Installed 
Nov. 12, 1865, Bethany Ch. Released and dismissed April 9, 1869, 
2d Pby. Philadelphia. Received May 6, 1878, Pby. Allegheny. 
Dismissed March 7, Pby. New Brunswick. Received April 30, 
1886, Pby. New Brunswick. D.D. 
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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

No. 588. John B. McCorkell. Received July 3, 1865, Ref. Pby. 
Chicago. Ordained 1856. Installed July 16, 1865, Union Ch. 
Released Sept. 5, 1885. 

No. 589. "Wallace Radcliff. Received as a licentiate Aug. 28, 
1866, Pby. New Brunswick. Ordained and installed Aug. 28, 1866, 
Woodland Ch. Released Oct. 4, 1870. Dismissed June 3, 1872, 
Pby. Lehigh. D.D. 

No. 590. "Wm. Graham. Received as a foreign minister on probate 
Oct. 7, 1867, Pby. Maitland, New S. Wales. Full membership Oct. 
23, 1868. Name struck from the roll May 5, 1869, having with- 
drawn to the Episcopal Ch. 

No. 591. Prentiss De Veuve. Received Oct. 19, 1867. Ordained 
Oct. 15, 1857, Pby. New Brunswick. Dismissed Jan. 6, 1868, 3d 
Pby. Philadelphia. Received April 14, 1868, by 3d Pby. Philadel- 
phia. Dismissed Oct. 20, 1868, Pby. Newark. 

No. 592. Benjamin L. Agnew. Received Jan. 6, 1868, Pby. 
Blairsville. Installed Jan. 20, 1868, Westminster Cli. Released 
and transferred to Central Pby. Philadelphia, May 10, 1870. In- 
stalled May 22, 1870, North Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Philadel- 
phia Central Pby. Released and dismissed Dec. 1, 1883, Pby. 
Pittsburgh. Received to Philadelphia Central Pby, May 5, 1884, 
from Pby. Pittsburgh. Installed May 12, 1884, Bethlehem Ch. 
D.D. 

No. 593. Wm. E. Robeson. Received April 6, 1868. Licensed 
and dismissed June 6, 1876, Pby. Lackawanna. 

No. 594. Samuel E. Webster. Received as a candidate April 6, 
1868. Dismissed April 4, 1871, Pby. Westminster. Ordained May, 
1871. D.D. 

No. 595. John L. Withrow. Received Dec. 8, 1868, Second Pby. 
Phila. Ordained May 22, 1863, Second Pby. Phila. Installed Dec. 
1868, Arch Street Church. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central 
Pby. Released and dismissed Sept. 22, 1873, Pby. Indianapolis. 
Received by Phila. Central Pby. April 2, 1878, from Pby. Indiana- 
polis. Dismissed Oct. 5, 1880, Cong. Asso. Boston, Mass. D.D. 

No. 596. "Wm. M. Dorlard. Received Dec. 8, 1868, Pby. Ca- 
tawba. Died Aug. 24, 1884. 

No. 597. Robert Davidson. Received Jan. 4, 1869, Pby. Long 
Island. Ordained March, lb32, Pby. West Lexington. Died April 
6, 1876. D.D. 

No. 598. Elias R. Beadle. Received to Central Pby. Phila., Nov. 
6, 1865, Pby. Rochester City. Ordained 1835. Installed Nov. 12, 
.. 1865, Second Church. Received with Second Church by transfer 
Oct. 23, 1868. Died Jan. 6, 1879. D.D. 

No. 599. John W. E. Ker. Received April 5, 1869, Pby. Northum- 
berland. Ordained Aug. 16, 1842, Pby. West Jersey. Died Aug. 
12, 1879. 

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Ko. 600. Henry B. Ensworth. Received May 5, 1869, from Cong. 

Church. Name dropped, having withdrawn to Episcopal Church, 

Jan. 6, 1874. 
No. 601. D. Hopkins Emerson. Received Oct. 4, 1869, Pby. 

Wilmington. Installed Oct. 17, 1869, Mariners' Ch. Released 

April 26, 1872. Died July 5, 1883. D.D. 

No. 602. Alexander Sinclair. Received Oct. 4, 1869, Pby. Con- 
cord. Dismissed Dec. 14, 1869, Pby. Meadville. 

No. 603. Thomas B. Neill. Received Oct. 4, 1869, Pby. South 
Carolina. Ordained 1854, Pby. Georgia. Dismissed April 15, 1872, 
Pby. Arkansas. 

No. 604. James Russell Miller. Received Dec. 14, 1869, U. P. 
Pby. Mercer. Ordained 1867. Installed Jan. 17, 1870, Bethany 
Ch. Released and dismissed Oct. 15, 1878, Pby. Rock River. Re- 
ceived Oct. 4, 1880, Pby. Rock River. Installed April 23, 1882, 
Holland Mem. Ch. Released Sept. 3, 1883. Ed. Supt. Pres. Bd. 
Pub. and S. S. Work. D.D. 

No. 605. Henry C. MoCook. Received Jan. 3, 1870, Pby. St. 

Louis. Ordained 1861. Installed Jan. 18, 1870, Seventh, now 

Tabernacle, Ch. D.D. 
No. 606. John P. Conkey. Received April 4, 1870. Ordained 

Nov. 5, 1858, Pby. Dubuque. Installed April 12, 1870, Sixth Ch. 

Released April 15, 1872. Dismissed April 29, 1872, Pby. New 

Castle. 
No. 607. Charles Brovrn. Received by 2d Pby. Phila., as a 

candidate, April 16, 1833. Licensed April 18, 1833. Oi'dained 

June 30, 1833. Dismissed July 24, 1834, Pby. Lewes. Received 

to 3d Pby. Phila., April 4, 1843. Transferred by division of Pby. 

Oct. 23, 1845, to 4th Pby. Phila. Installed April 11, 1849, Logan 

Square Ch. Released Feb. 6, 1855. Transferred Oct. 19, 1855, 3d 

Pby. Phila. Transferred to Phila. Pby. June, 1870. 
No. 608. Geo. R. Moore. Received June, 1870, Pby. Cedar Rapids. 

Dismissed April 2, 1873, Pby, Cedar Rapids. 
No. 609. David Malin. Received by 3d Pby. Phila., May 30, 

1843, Pby. Cayuga. Ordained April 25, 1838. Transferred Oct. 

23, 1845, 4th Pby. Phila. by division of Pby. Transferred June, 

1870, Phila. Pby. Installed Nov. 6, 1870, Fifteenth Ch. Released 

May 6, 1878. Died Dec. 25, 1885. D.D. 
No. 610. James Boggs. Received to Fourth Pby. Phila., April 15, 

1857, Pby. Fort Wayne. Ordained 1838. Installed May 19, 1857, 

Fairfield First Ch. Released Oct. 17, 1866. Transferred June, 

1870, to Pby. Phila. Died April 2, 1888. 
No. 611. Benjamin B. Parsons. Received to Third Pby. Phila., 

Nov. 9, 1868, Pby. Lexington. Installed Feb. 7, 1869, Cedar St. 

Ch. Transferred to Phila, Pby. June, 1870. Released Dec. 19, 

1870. Dismissed to Phila. Central Pby. Oct. 27, 1873. Died Feb. 

25, 1887. D.D. 

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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

No. 612. Daniel March. Received to Third Pby. Pliila. Feb. 21, 
1862, Woburn Asso., Mass. Ordained 1845. Installed Feb. 23, 

1862, Clinton St. Ch. Transferred to PMla. Pby. June, 1870. Re- 
leased Nov. 15, 1872. D.D. 

No. 613. Andrew Culver. Received to Fourth Pby. Phila., Sept. 

22, 1846. Licensed April 15, 1847. Ordained 1847, Manayunk Ch. 

Released Nov. 12, 1867. Installed Nov. 18, 1867, Southwark First 

Church. Transferred to Pby. Phila. June, 1870. Released Nov. 14, 

1870. Installed March 21, 1878, Grace Ch. 
No. 614. John M'Leod. Received to Fourth Pby. Phila., April 

15, 1846. Licensed April 16, 1846. Dismissed Oct. 20, 1847, Pby. 

New York. Ordained 1847. Received to Fourth Pby. Phila. Oct. 

21, 1857, Third Pby. New York. Installed 1866, Southwestern 

Ch. Transferred to Phila. Pby. June, 1870. Released Feb. 4, 

1884. 

No. 615. John "W. Dulles. Received to Fourth Pby. April 12, 
1848. Licensed April 13, 1848. Ordained Oct. 2, 1848. Missionary 
in India 1848-52. Sec. Pres. Bd. Pub. Transferred to Pby. Phila. 
June, 1870. Died April 13, 1887. D.D. 

No. 616. Edward B. Bruen. Received to 4th Pby. Phila. as a 
licentiate June 20, 1848, Third Pby. New York. Ordained and 
installed June 25, 1848, Southwark First Ch. Released March 16, 
1858. Transferred June, 1870, Pby. Phila. Installed March 16, 
1876, South St. Ch., now Church of the Atonement. 

No. 617. James E. Miller. Received Pby. St. Paul, June, 1870. 
Ordained April 24, 1850, Pby. Newton. Dismissed April 4, 1871, 
Pby. St. Paul. 

No. 618. Samuel Caldwell. Received June, 1870, Pby. Ohio. 
Dismissed Dec. 5, 1881, Pby. Pittsburgh. 

No. 619. Richard H. Allen. Received to Fourth Pby. Phila., 
April 10, 1867, Pby. Nashville. Installed April 21, 1867, Third 
Ch. Transferred June, 1870, to Phila. Pby. Released Sept. 6, 
1880. Sec. Bd. of Missions for Freedmen. D.D. 

No. 620. Zephaniah M. Humphrey. Received to 3d Pby. Phil- 
adelphia April 27, 1868, Pby. Chicago. Installed May 18, 1868, 
Calvary Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Pby. Philadelphia. Released 
June 21, 1875. Dismissed Sept. 6, 1875, Pby. Cincinnati. D.D. 

No. 621. Albert Henry Barns. Received to 4th Pby. Philadel- 
phia, as a licentiate June 18, 1854, New Haven Eastern Asso. Dis- 
missed Oct. 26, 1854, Pby. Pennsylvania. Ordained Dec. 6, 1854. 
Received to 4th Pby. Philadelphia April 10, 1860. Transferred 
Oct. 22, 1862, 3d Pby. Philadelphia. Transferred June, 1870, Pby. 
Philadelphia. Died May 6, 1878. 

No. 622. Samuel "W". Crittenden. Received to 3d Pby. Phila. Oct. 
21, 1862. Ordained April 29, 1856, Pby. Bedford. Installed Jan. 18, 

1863, pastor Darby 2d Ch. Released April 13, 1865. Transferred 

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KOLL OF 

to Pby. PMla. June, 1870. Dismissed Oct. 13, 1871, Pby. New- 
York. Received Oct. 18, 1874, Pby. New York. Died March 1, 
1884. 

No. 623. Herrick Johnson. Received and installed by 4tli Pby. 
Phila. June 4, 1868, First Ch. Transferred June, 1870, to Phila. 
Pby. Released Oct. 27, 1873. Dismissed Jan. 6, 1874, Pby. Cay- 
uga. D.D. 

No. 624. John B. Reeve. Received by 4th Pby. Phila. May 30, 
1861. Ordained and installed June 4, 1861, Lombard St. Central 
Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Pby. Released Sept. 4, 1871. 
Installed Sept. 25, 1875, Lombard St. Central Ch. D.D. 

No. 625. Stephen "W. Dana. Received by 4th Pby. Phila. as a 
licentiate April 10, 1867. Ordained and installed April 11, 1867, 
Belvidere 2d Ch. Released and dismissed June 4, 1868, 3d Pby. 
Phila. Installed Sept. 21, 1868, Walnut St. Ch. Transferred 
June, 1870, Pby. Phila. D.D. 

No. 626. Wm. Hutton. Received by 4th Pby. Phila. April 11. 
1866. Licensed April 11, 1867. Ordained Oct. 27, 1867. Installed 
Nov. 5, 1868, Greenwich St. Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Pby. 
Phila. 

No. 627. J. Henry Sharpe. Received by 4th Pby. Phila. April 

12, 1870. Installed May 15, 1870, Wharton St. Ch. Transferred 
June, 1870, Phila. Pby. Released Nov. 16, 1874. Dismissed March 
7, 1881, Pby. Phila. Central. Installed April 1, 1881, Hestonville 
Ch. D.D. 

No. 628. Brown Emerson. Received to 4th Pby. Phila. April 

13, 1864, Worcester Asso. Mass. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. 
Pby. Dismissed April 15, 1872, Pby. New York. 

No. 629. James C. Davis. Received and licensed Oct. 31, 1870. 

Dismissed Oct. 31, 1870, Pby. Union. 
No. 630. Jesse Kelly. Received as a candidate Dec. 1,4870. Dis- 
missed April 24, 1874. Pby. Tennessee. 
No. 631. John M. McCahan. Received Dec. 1, 1870. Licensed 

Jan. 6, 1879. Ordained May 11, 1879. 
No. 632. Gerald F. Dale, Jr. Received April 4, 1871. Licensed 

April 2, 1872. Ordained May 8, 1873. Missionary to Syria. Died 

Oct. 6, 1886. 
No. 633. Norman "W. Gary. Received April 4, 1871. Licensed 

April 2, 1872. Ordained May 8, 1873. Dismissed June 6, 1876, 

Pby. St. Paul. 
No. 634. Frederick W. March. Received April 4, 1871. Licensed 

April 2, 1872. Ordained May 22, 1873, missionary to Syria. 
No. 635. Charles D. Emerson. Received as a candidate April 4, 

1871. Dismissed Oct. 6, 1874, Pby. Cayuga. 

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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

No. 636. Wm. P. Patterson. Received Oct. 3, 1871. Licensed 
May 7, 1877. Dismissed June 4, 1877, Pby. New Brunswick. Or-, 
dained June 12, 1877. 

No. 637. Samuel P. Linn. Received Oct. 13, 1871, Pby. Chester. 
Dismissed April 26, 1872, Pby. Northumberland. Received Jan. 
12, 1874, Pby. Northumberland. Dismissed April 2, 1877, Pby. 
Louisiana. Died 1887. 

No. 638. Edwin P. Fulton. Received Dec. 4, 1871. Licensed 
May 4, 1875. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1875, Pby. Westminster. 

No. 639. Wm. G. Hillman. Received Jan. 2, 1872, Pby. Balti- 
more. Installed Jan. 14, 1872, Westminster Ch. Released and 
dismissed April 20, 1874, Pby. North River. 

No. 640. Louis R. Fox. Received Jan. 15, 1872, Pby. Washing- 
ton City. Ordained April 28, 1864. Installed Jan. 25, 1872, Tenth 
Ch. Released June 8, 1874. Dismissed Oct. 1, 1877, Pby. Mon- 
mouth. 

No. 641. Gordon Mitchell. Received as a licentiate April 2, 
1872, New York and Brooklyn Cong. Asso. Ordained and installed 
April 26, 1872, Cedar St. Ch. Released Nov. 1, 1875. Dismissed 
Jan. 5, 1878, Pby. Westchester. Died Feb. 5, 1878. 

No. 642. Wm. F. Garrett. Received April 15, 1872. Licensed 
June 3, 1872. Ordained Nov. 12, 1874. 

No. 643. A. Vincent Group. Received and licensed April 15, 

1872. Ordained and installed July 9, 1872, Mariners' Ch. Died 
June 22, 1879. 

No. 644. Albert N. Kergwin. Received April 29, 1872, Pby. 

Cedar Rapids. Ordained 1867, Pby. Rock River. Installed May 

2, 1872, Southwark First Ch. Released and dismissed Oct. 15, 

1878, Pby. New Castle. 
No. 645. Charles F. Leaman. Received Oct. 1, 1872. Licensed 

Jan. 8, 1874. Ordained June 17, 1874. Dismissed Jan. 5, 1875, 

Pby. Shanghai. 
No. 646. William R. Templeton. Received and licensed July 1, 

1873. Dismissed April 24, 1874, Pby. Lehigh. 

No. 647. Wm. S. Heindel. Received Feb. 3, 1873. Licensed 
April 8, 1873. Dismissed March 16, 1874, Pby. Louisville. 

No. 648. Henry L. Bunstein. Received as a licentiate Feb. 10, 
1873. Ordained and installed Feb. 25, 1873, Clinton St. Ch. Re- 
leased Nov. 2, 1876. Dismissed April 9, 1879, Pby. Northumber- 
land. 

No. 649. "Wm. Boyd. Received April 2, 1873. Licensed May 4, 
1875. Dismissed June 5, 1876, Pby. Chester. Ordained June 21, 
1876. 

No. 650. Reading B. Johns. Received April 8, 1873, Hartford 
Central Cong. Asso. Ordained April, 1866, Pby. Elizabethtown. 

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Installed April 26, 1873, African First Ch. Released March 17, 
1879. Dismissed. 

No. 651. John Chambers. Received as an independent minister 
with his church Oct. 10, 1873. Ordained and installed pastor May, 
1825, First Independent Ch. Name changed on its reception by 
Pby. to Chambers Ch. Died Sept. 22, 1875. D.D. 

No. 652. J. Gray Bolton. Received Oct. 27, 1873. Licensed May 
4, 1875. Ordained June 29, 1875, Hope Mission. 

No. 653. Lawrence M. Colfelt. Received March 19, 1874, Pby. 
Monmouth. Ordained May 9, 1872. Installed March 29, 1874, 
First Ch. Released March 3, 1884. Dismissed Feb. 2, 1885, Phila. 
Central Pby. Installed Feb. 15, 1885, Oxford Ch. D.D. 

No. 654. Hamilton B. Holmes. Received May 11, 1874, Pby. 
North River. Dismissed Oct. 1, 1877, Pby. Long Island. 

No. 655. "Wm. Y. Brown. Received June 8, 1874. Ordained 
June 15, 1853, Pby. New Lisbon. Dismissed Oct. 12, 1874, Pby. 
Chester. Received Jan. 2, 1888, Pby. New York. D.D. 

No. 656. George T. Purves. Received June 15, 1874. Licensed 
Mav 2, 1876. Dismissed April 2, 1877, Pby. Chester. Ordained 
April 27, 1877. 

No. 657. David "Winters. Received July 7, 1874, Pby. Jersey 
City. Ordained April 30, 1872. Installed July 19, 1874, West- 
minster Ch. Released and dismissed Dec. 5, 1881, Pby. Grenessee 
Valley. 

No. 658. "Wm. T. Kruse. Received Oct. 12, 1874. Licensed May 

2, 1881. Dismissed Sept. 5, 1881, Pby. Chester. Ordained Sept. 
6, 1881. 

No. 659. George H. Pool. Received Nov. 16, 1874, Classis Ber- 
gess. Installed Jan. 17. 1875, Fourth Ch. Released June 4, 1877. 
Died Feb. 3, 1881. 

No. 660. "Wm. W. Taylor. Received to 2d Pby. Phila. (Assem- 
bly's), April 13, 1836. Licensed May 19, 1836. Ordained May 13, 
1838. Dismissed June 5, 1840, Pby. Pittsburgh. Received to 4th 
Pby. Phila. Oct. 19, 1847, Pby. Portage. Installed, 1848, Oreeu 
Hill Ch. Released April 27, 1854. Dismissed Feb. 6, 1855, Pby. 
Geneva. Received to 3d Pby. Phila. Oct. 31, 1861. Installed Nov. 

3, 1861, Olivet Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central. Pas- 
toral relation dissolved May 15, 1871. Dismissed April 2, 1872, 
Pby. Carlisle. Received to Phila. Pby. Feb. 1, 1875. Pby. Car- 
lisle. Dismissed April 3, 1876, Pby. New Castle. 

No. 661. Joseph H. Dulles. Received May 3, 1875. Licensed 
May 7, 1877. Ordained Dec. 9, 1877. Dismissed Dec. 6, 1880, Pby. 
Newton. 

No. 662. James "W. Lavatt. Received as a candidate Oct. 12, 
1874. Withdrawn to Methodist Episcopal Ch. 

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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

No. 663. Augustus "W. Williams. Received Sept. 6, 1875, Pby. 
Indianapolis. Ordained 1873. Installed Oct. 5, 1875, Wharton 
St. Ch. Released Oct. 5, 1885. 

No. 664. Francis J. Grimke. Received as a candidate Oct. 4, 

1875. Dismissed May 6, 1878, Pbj. Washington. 

No. 665. Charles A. Dickey. Received Dec. 6, 1875, Pby. St. 

Louis. Ordained April, 1862. Installed Dec. 19, 1875, Calvary 

Ch. D.D. 
No. 666. Andre-w Macfarlane. Received Feb. 7, 1876. Licensed 

May 2, 1876. Dismissed Jan. 3, 1881, Pby. Idaho. Ordained 1881. 

Received April 7, 1884. M.D. 
No. 667. Henry C. Westwood. Received March 6, 1876, Pby. 

Westminster. Installed March 19, 1876, Chambers Ch. Released 

Oct. 7, 1878. Dismissed Nov. 1, 1880, Pby. Highland. D.D. 
No. 668. Benjamin P. Clark. Received May 2, 1876. Licensed 

May 7, 1878. 

No. 669. Wm. B. Robeson. Licensed and dismissed June 6, 

1876, Pby. Lackawanna. 

No. 670. John De Witt. Received Sept. 3, 1876, Boston Cong. 
Asso. Installed Oct. 12, 1876, Tenth Ch. Released June 5, 1882. 
Dismissed Dec. 19, 1883, Pby. Cincinnati. D.D. 

No. 671. D. P. Lindsley. Received as a licentiate Feb. 5, 1877. 
Dismissed March 4, 1878, Pby. Boston. 

No. 672. George Benaugh. Received Oct. 1, 1877, Pby. Lehigh. 
Ordained July 25, 1873. Installed Nov. 14, 1877, Fourth Ch. Re- 
leased and dismissed Sept. 20, 1880, Pby. Huntingdon. Received 
May 4, 1885, Pby. Huntingdon. Dismissed April 2, 1888, Pby. 
Portsmouth. D.D. 

No. 673. David Hazel. Received as a licentiate Oct. 1, 1877, Ref. 
Pby. Phila. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1881, Pby. Huntingdon. Ordained 
1881. Received .Jan. 8, 1883, Pby. Huntingdon. 

No. 674. Allen Macy Dulles. Received May 6, 1878. Licensed 
May 5, 1879. Dismissed to Pby. Detroit, Nov. 7, 1881. 

No. 675. William Nesbit Cashman. Received as a candidate 
May 6, 1878. 

No. 676. Henry Neill. Received July 7, 1878, Pby. New Bruns- 
wick. Died April 21, 1879. D.D. 

No. 677. Alexander Thompson. Received Sept. 2, 1878, Pby. 
Neosho. Dismissed Nov. 1, 1880, Pby. Highland. 

No. 678. Thomas E. Souper. Received Nov. 4, 1878, Pby. Mor- 
ris and Orange. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1880, Pby. Morris and Orange. 

No. 679. Harris Rogers Schenck. Received as a candidate Dec. 
2, 1878. Dismissed April 18, 1881, Pby. West Chester. . Ordained 
June 7, 1881, Pby. Westchester. 

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ROLL OF 

No. 680. Johnson Hubbell. Received as a candidate Jan. 6, 1879. 
Licensed Oct. 6, 1879. Dismissed Dec. 6, 1880, Reformed Episcopal 
Church. 

No. 681. John M'Millan. Received Feb. 3, 1879, Pby. Redstone. 
Installed Feb. 13, 1879, Fifteenth Ch. Died Aug. 30, 1882. D.D. 

No. 682. John C. Thompson. Received Feb. 3, 1879, Pby. Balti- 
more. Installed Feb. 11, 1879, Soutliwark First Ch. Released Oct. 
10, 1880. Installed April 22, 1883, South Broad St. Ch. Trans- 
ferred and installed June 28, 1885, Scots Church. Ordained May, 
1880, Pby. New Castle. 

No. 683. Francis Edward Smiley. Received as a candidate May 
5, 1879. Licensed May 4, 1885. Ordained and installed April 30, 
1886, Wharton Street Church. 

No. 684. "Wm. P. Breed, Jr. Received as a candidate June 2, 1879. 
Licensed May 1, 1882. Dismissed Sept. 3, 1883, Pby. Chester. 

No. 685. Richard Montgomery. Received as a candidate Sept. 1, 
1879. Licensed May 1, 1882. Dismissed Dec. 3, 1882, Pby. Phila- 
delphia North. 

No. 686. John M. P. Otts. Received Dec. 1,1879, Pby. New Castle. 
Installed Dec. 14, 1879, Chambers Ch. Released April 2, 1883. 
Dismissed Nov. 3, 1884, Pby. S. Alabama. D.D. 

No. 687. I. V. W. Schenck. Received Jan. 5, 1880, Pby. New 
Brunswick. Ordained May 18, 1869, Pby. New Brunswick. In- 
stalled Jan. 13, 1850, Eastburn Mariners' Ch. Released April 8, 
1883. Dismissed March 3, 1884, to Pby. of Wisconsin River. 

No. 688. James B. Dunn. Received Feb. 16, 1880, Pby. Boston. 
Installed Feb. 18, 1880, Bethany Ch. Released May 1, 1882. Or- 
dained 1862. D.D. 

No. 689. "Wm. G. Jenkins. Received as a licentiate Sept. 6, 1880, 
Pby. Cleveland. 

No. 690. Richard A. Greene. Received Dec. 6, 1880, as a candi- 
date. Licensed May 1, 1882. Dismissed June 7, 1886, Pby. Phila- 
delphia North. 

No. 691. Brown H. Emerson. Received Dec. 13, 1880, Presbytery 
of Boston. Ordained by Pby. of Hudson, Sept. 30, 1873. 

No. 692. "Wm. B. Cullis. Received Jan. 10, 1881, Pby. Philada. 
Central. Installed Jan. 18, 1881, Southwark First Ch. Released 
March 6, 1882. Name dropped from Roll Oct. 2, 1882. 

No. 693. James Robinson. Received Feb. 7, 1881, Pby. Lehigh. 
Installed Feb. 14, 1881, Fourth Ch. Released Sept. 5, 1885. Or- 
dained May 4, 1875, Pby. Lehigh. M.D. 

No. 694. John S. Macintosh. Received March 1, 1881, Pby. Bel- 
fast. Installed March 17, 1881, Second Ch. Ordained Nov. 5, 
1862. D.D. 

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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

No. 695. Willis B. Skillman. Received as a licentiate Marcfe 7, 
1881, Pby. New Brunswick. Ordained and installed March 15, 
1881, Tabor Church. 

No. 696. Wm. M. Baker. Received Sept. 5, 1881, Pby. Boston. 
Installed Nov. 3, 1881, South Ch. Released Feb. 19, 1883. Died 
Aug. 20, 1883. Ordained 1850. D.D. 

No. 697. Hughs O. Gibbons. Received Sept. 5, 1881, Pby. Balti- 
more. Installed Oct. 11, 1881, Third Ch. Ordained 1875. 

No. 698. William Walker. Received as a candidate Oct. 3, 1881. 
Licensed June 16, 1887. Dismissed Nov. 7, 1887, Pby. Saginaw. 

No. 699. Wm. N. Richie. Received April 3, 1882, U. P. Pby. 
New York. Installed April 25, 1882, "Westminster Ch. Released 
Feb. 2, 1885. Installed June 22, 1886, Fourth Ch. Ordained 1877. 

No. 700. James H. Young. Received as a candidate May 1, 1882. 

No. 701. J. Frederick Dripps. Received June 5, 1882, Pby. Phil- 
ada. North. Installed June 6, 1882, Clinton Street Immanuel Ch. 
Released June 7, 1886. Ordained March 7, 1870, Second Pby. 
Philadelphia. D.D. 

No. 702. John Fraser. Received as a candidate Sept. 4, 1882. 

No. 703. Peter Rioseco. Received as a candidate Sept. 4, 1882. 

No. 704. Robert H. Kirk. Received as a candidate Sept. 4, 1882. 
Dismissed Feb. 4, 1884, Pby. Philada. Central. 

No. 705. Albert S. Maya. Received Nov. 6, 1882. Installed Dec. 
21, 1884, African First Ch. Released June 6, 1887. Dismissed Sept. 
5, 1887, Pby. Troy. 

No. 706. Wm. S. Thompson. Received Dec. 3, 1882, Pby. Phila- 
da. Central. Installed Dec. 17, 1882, Southwark First Ch. Re- 
leased April 7, 1884. Dismissed April 7, 1884, Pby. Philada. 
North. 

No. 707. William F. S. Nelson. Received as a candidate Feb. 
19, 1883. 

No. 708. Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr. Received May 7, 1883, Pby. 
Boston. Installed May 14, 1883, Tenth Ch. Ordained June 3, 1880. 

No. 709. Duncan M. Young. Received May 7, 1883, from the 
Baptist Church. Dismissed April 7, 1884, Pby. Baltimore. 

No. 710. Charles Wadsworth, Jr. Received and licensed June 
3, 1883. Dismissed June 7, 1886, Pby. Philada. Central. 

No. 711. Arthur T. Pierson. Received Nov. 5, 1883, Pby. Indian- 
apolis. Installed Nov. 25, 1883, Bethany Ch. Ordained May 13, 
1860. D.D. 

No. 712. Wm. L. Ledwith. Received Nov. 5, 1883, Pby. West- 
minster. Installed Nov. 22, 1883, South Ch. Ordained June 27, 
1877, Pby. Westminster. 

No. 713. Martin L. Ross. Received Nov. 5, 1883, Pby. Philada. 
Central. Installed Nov. 19, 1883, Fifteenth Church (name changed 

55 



ROLL OP 

to Evangel). ReleasedJune 7, 1886. Dismissed June 7, 1886, Pby. 
Westminster. 

No. 714. Wm. M. Paden. Received as a licentiate Nov. 5, 1883, 
Pby. Washington. Ordained and installed Nov. 20, 1883, Holland 
Mem. Ch. 

No. 715. Walter W. Hammond. Received Dec. 3, 1883, from 
the Baptist Church. Dismissed Sept. 7, 1885, Pby. Philada. 
North. D.D. 

No. 716. John C. Gunther. Received Feb. 4, 1884, Pby. High- 
laud. Dismissed April 6, 1885, Pby. Newark. 

No. 717. Edwin D. Newberry. Received March 3, 1884, Pby. 
Philada. Central. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1886, Pby. New Castle. 

No. 718. Henry F. Lee. Received May 5, 1884, Pby. Philada. 
North. Installed May 20, 1884, Eastburn Mariners' Ch. Ordained 
April 26, 1860, Second Pby. Philada. 

No. 719. Thomas A. Hoyt. Received May 5, 1884, Pby. Nash- 
ville. Installed May 11, 1884, Chambers Church. Ordained 1852. 
D.D. 

No. 720. George F. Harper. Received as a candidate June 2, 1884. 

No. 721. Alexander Waddell. Received as a candidate June 2, 
1884. Licensed May 30, 1886. Dismissed Feb. 6, 1888, Pby. 
Philada. North. 

No. 722. Irwin P. M' Curdy. Received June 16, 1884, Pby. Balti- 
more. Ordained July 8, 1881, by Pby. of Baltimore. Installed 
June 29, 1884, Southwestern Ch. D.D. 

No. 723. Frederick S. Curtis. Received as a candidate Sept. 1, 
1884. Licensed June 7, 1886. Ordained June 16, 1887. Mission- 
ary to Japan. 

No. 724. Arthur Morrow. Received as a candidate Oct. 7, 1884. 

No. 725. William Nelson. Received as a candidate Oct. 7, 1884. 

No. 726. George D. Baker. Received Jan. 5, 1885, Pby. Detroit. 
Installed Jan. 18, 1885, First Ch. Ordained June 29, 1864, by Pby. 
Watertown. D.D. 

No. 727. James B. Macool. Received Jan. 5, 1885, Philada. Pby. 
Ref. Pres. Ch. Installed Jan. 11, 1885, Southwark First Ch. Re- 
leased Jan. 5, 1886. Dismissed Feb. 7, 1887, Pby. New Brunswick. 

No. 728. Daniel W. Poor. Received Feb. 5, 1885, Pby. Philada. 
Central. Ordained 1843. Sec. Bd. Education. D.D. 

No. 729. Charles I. Stevens. Received as a candidate March 2, 
1885. 

No. 730. James G. Wood. Received as a candidate March 2, 
1885. 

No. 731. Edmund Morris Fergusson. Received as a candidate 
April 6, 1885. Licensed June 1, 1885. Dismissed April 5, 1886, 

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MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 

Pby. W. Jersey. Received Nov. 7, 1887, Pby. W. Jersey. Ordained 

1886. 
No. 732. Henry J. Weber. Received April 13, 1885, Pby. Phila 

Central. S. IS. Church of Peace (German). Ordained 1875. 
No. 733. Bentley B. Foster. Received May 4, 1885. Dismissed 

Dec. 7, 1885, Pby. Monmouth. 
No. 734. Thomas C. Horton. Received May 4, 1885, Pby. St. 

Paul. Ordained 1884. Installed May 24, 1885, Assistant Pastor 

Bethany Ch. Released April 16, 1888. 
No. 735. Rufus B. Marks. Licensed June 1, 1885. 
No. 736. Theodorus W. J. Wylie. Received Sept. 7, 1885, Ref. 

Pby. Phila., with Wylie Mem. Ch. Ordained and installed Oct. 26, 

1843, Reformed Pby. Phila. D.D. 
No. 737. Robert Ellis Thompson. Received Sept. 7, 1885, Ref. 

Pby. Phila. Ordained 1874. D.D. 
No. 738. John Faires. Received as a licentiate Sept. 7, 1885, Ref. 

Pby. Phila. D.D. 
No. 739. Wm. F G-ibbons. Received as a candidate Sept. 5, 1885. 
No. 740. Uriah F. Smiley. Received as a candidate Dec. 7, 1885. 
No. 741. John Kirkpatrick. Received Jan. 4, 1886, Pby. Toronto. 

Installed Jan. 25, 1886, Westminster Ch. Ordained May 28, 1868, 

Pby. Ballibay, Ireland. 
No, 742. Louis F. Benson. Received as a candidate April 5, 1886. 

Licensed June 7, 1886. Dismissed May 7, 1888, Pby. Phila. North. 
No. 743. Charles J. Junkin. Received as a candidate April 5, 

1886. Licensed June 7, 1886. 
No. 744. Charles W. Nevin. Received as a candidate June 7, 1886. 

Licensed Oct, 3, 1887. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1887, Pby. Monmouth. 
No. 745. James Stewart Dickson. Received June 14, 1886. 

Installed July 1, 1886, Woodland Ch. Ordained 1883. 
No. 746. "Wm.. Y. Chapman. Received as a candidate Oct. 4, 1886. 

Licensed May 10, 1888. 
No. 747. Wm, W. Heberton Received May 2, 1887, Pby. Ches- 
ter. Treasurer Bd. Education. Ordained Oct. 28, 1869. 
No. 748. Charles M. McNulty. Received May 7, 1887, Pby. 

Allegheny. Installed May 19, 1887, Southwark First Ch. Released 

March 5, 1888. Ordained 1880. 
No. 749. Herman C. Fox. Received as a licentiate Sept. 5, 1887, 

Pby. Phila. Central. Ordained and installed Oct. 13, 1887, Clinton 

St. Immanuel Ch. 

No. 750. Samuel Sample. Received as a candidate Sept. 5, 1887. 
No. 751. J. C. Chapman. Received April 2, 1888, Phila. Reformed 

Pby. Ordained by commission of the Synod of the Reformed Pres. 

Ch. May 29, 1878. 
No. 752. John D. Glass. Received as a licentiate April 2, 1888, 

Glasgow Pby. Church of Scotland. 
No. 753. Alexander Esler. Received as a candidate April 2, 1888. 

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CORRECTIONS. 

No. 120, /or Thomas Picton, read Thomas Pictou. 

No. 154, /o?' John Rumkle, read Sohu Runkle. 

No. 163. Died Jan. 15, 1860. 

No. 294. Died 1883. 

No. 507, /or Tenth Church, read Fourth Ch. 

No. 518, /or John T. Cowhick, reac? John Y. Cowhick. 




XORTH BROAD STREET CHURCH, BROAD AND GREEN. 



HISTORY 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 



(1) 



HISTORY 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL, 



At the beginning of the year 1859 the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia included, according to its annual report to 
the General Assembly, fifty-one ministers and thirty- 
seven churches, a number exceeding the average re- 
ported from one-half the Synods of the Presbyterian' 
Church in the United States. This number was felt 
by many to be inconveniently large. In various ways 
it was indicated that, however competent such a body, 
and even one much larger, might be for the Synodical 
business of review and control, it could not well be 
efficient in the original jurisdiction, the founding and 
fostering, which belong to a Presbytery. Accordingly, 
during the sessions of Presbytery, April 18, 1859, a 
committee was appointed to confer with a similar com- 
mittee on behalf of the Second Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia, respecting a readjustment of the boundaries of 
the two bodies. 



4 HISTORY OF THE 

The intention in this measure was to draw the Second 
Presbytery of Philadelphia so far within the city limits 
as to include a portion of the ministers and churches of 
the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and, ultimately, to 
facilitate the constitution, whenever it might be deemed 
expedient, of a new Presbytery in the rural districts. 
The proposition proved not acceptable, but the subject 
was still kept in view, and at the stated meeting of 
Presbytery, Oct. 4, 1860, the following action was taken: 
" Pesolved, that in the judgment of this Presbytery it 
is expedient, for facilitating the transaction of business, 
that this body be divided, and that an overture be made 
to Synod, at their approaching sessions, to make such 
division, viz : That the line of division be the centre 
of Market Street, from the Delaware, westward, and 
that the churches with their pastors, which are north 
of said line, be constituted a new Presbytery to be 
styled the Central Presbytery of Philadelphia." This 
overture was laid before the Synod of Philadelphia, 
Oct. 18, 1860, and passed. 

Organization of the Presbytery. 

In obedience to the direction of the Synod of Phila- 
delphia, the Central Presbytery of Philadelphia met in 
the Spring Garden Presbyterian Church on Tuesday 
evening, Dec. 4, 1860, at 7J o'clock P. M., and was 
opened with a sermon by Kev. G. W. Musgrave, D.D., 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 5 

at the request of Rev. Ilr. McDowell, who was not able 
to preach. Dr. Musgrave's discourse was founded on 
Acts ii : 47. After sermon Rev. John McDowell, D.D., 
appointed by the Synod to preside at this first meeting 
of the Presbytery, called the body to order, and offered 
the constituting prayer. Eev. Henry Steele Clarke, 
D.D., was appointed clerk jpro tern. 

After the reading of the extract from Synod's Min- 
utes in regard to the organization of the Presbytery, on 
calling of the roll, the following ministers and elders 
responded to their names : — 

Ministers. 

John McDowell, D.D., Spring Garden Church ; Geo. 
W. Musgrave, D.D., l^athaniel West, D.D., Hestonville 
Church ; James M. Olmstead, D.D., Daniel Gaston, 
Cohocksink Church ; Jonathan Edwards, D.D., West 
Arch Street Church ; Henry Steele Clarke, D.D., 
Central Church; Alfred [N'evin, D.D., Alexander 
Church ; Francis D. Ladd, Penn Church ; William 0. 
Johnstone, Kensington Church ; William P. Work, 
Charles W. Shields, Second Church ; James G. Shinn, 
Richmond Church ; Joseph W. Porter, Charlestown 
and Phoenixville Churches ; Morris C. Sutphen, Spring 
Garden Church ; J. Addison Henry, Princeton Church. 



6 HISTORY OF THE 

Elders. 

Charles Collins, Gilbert Combs, Spring Garden 
Church ; James Gray, Hestonville Church ; George 
Gable, Cohocksink Church ; Samuel W. Collom, Alex- 
ander Church ; "William McLean, Penn Church ; Rob- 
ert Graham, Kensington Church ; Samuel D. Powell, 
North Church ; Charles Macalester, Second Church ; 
Hugh Love, Charlestown and Phoenixville Churches. 

After the completion of the roll Rev. C. W. Shields 
was chosen Moderator to serve till the commencement 
of the stated meeting, December 5, Rev. Drs. Musgrave 
and Nevin and Mr. Charles Macalester were appointed 
a committee to confer with the Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia or its committee, and arrange all matters requiring 
adjustment, growing out of the division of that body. 
Rev. Henry Steele Clarke, D.D., was elected Permanent 
Clerk, Rev. Daniel Gaston Stated Clerk, Rev. Morris 
C. Sutphen Temporary Clerk, and Mr. Samuel D. 
Powell Treasurer. The committee appointed by the 
Presbytery to organize a German church at the corner 
of School and Howard streeets reported that such 
organization was effected INTovember 11, 1860. This 
church, with the name First German Presbyterian 
Church, by reason of the division of the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia, was enrolled in the Central Presbytery, 
within the territory of which it was located. A com- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 7 

mittee was appointed to organize a church on Frank- 
ford Road whenever the way should be clear. It was 
ordered that the stated meetings of Presbytery be held 
quarterly, in the months of January, April, July, Oc- 
tober, and that the Presbytery be opened with a sermon 
by the last Moderator at the stated meetings in April 
and October. 

1861. 

The meeting of Presbytery, January 7, was held in 
the Second Presbyterian Church. Rev. Alfred ISTevin, 
D.D., resigned his pastoral relation to the Alexander 
Church. Mr. Matthew Newkirk, Jr., was received 
and examined as a candidate for the ministry, and 
licensed to preach the gospel. Mr. Luther H. Wilson, 
Mr. J. D. McClintock, and Mr. Thomas J. Aikens 
were also received as candidates. Rev. W. M. Cornell, 
M.D., was received from the Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia, also Mr. George Locker, a licentiate from the 
same body. Rev. D. Gaston having resigned the office 
of Stated Clerk, Rev. James G. Shinn was appointed 
to fill it. At a meeting of Presbytery, January 28, the 
First German Church presented a call for Mr. George 
Locher, a licentiate. Application being made for his 
ordination, as an evangelist, the ordination took place 
. February 8. At the meeting April 2 James M. 01m- 
stead, D.D., was elected Moderator for six months. 



8 HISTORY OF THE 

Messrs. W. H. Hodge, Alfred H. Kellogg, and Walter 
Forsyth were licensed to preach the gospel, April 3. 
Eev. John H. Smaltz was received May 6, " pro forma," 
from the Presbytery of Philadelphia, Eev. James 
Clark, D.D., from the Presbytery of JSTorthumberland, 
Eev. James E. Johnston from the Presbytery of Hud- 
son, Eev. Shepard K. Kollock, D.D.. from the Presby- 
tery of West Jersey, and Eev. H. G. Blinn from the 
(IST. S.) Presbytery of Monroe. May 6. The church on 
Frankford Eoad was reported to have been regularly 
constituted, and was entered upon the roll. July 1. 
Eev. J. A. Devine was received from the Presbytery of 
Ogdensburg, and Eev. D. Kennedy from the Presbytery 
of ITew York; Eev. Edward B. Hodge, Henry B. 
Townsend and Edward D. Ledyard were received as 
candidates for the ministry. September 2. Mr. A. M. 
Jelly, a licentiate, was received, accepted a call to Bel- 
mont Church, and arrangements were made for his 
ordination and installation, should the way be clear. 
This took place September 14. ISTotice was given of 
the death of Eev. John H. Smaltz, and a committee 
appointed to prepare a suitable memorial. September 
14, Eev. J. Gr. Shinn resigned the pastoral charge of the 
First Church, Eichmond. Eev. Henry F. Lee was re- 
ceived from the Presbytery of Philadelphia. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 9 

Obituary Minute of the Rev. J. H. Smaltz. Adopted Oct. 1. 

" Since the last stated meeting Presbytery have with 
pain and solemnity to record the decease of one of our 
aged brethren, the Rev. John H. Smaltz. He died on 
the 30th day of July, 1861, after an illness of less than 
an hour. Mr. Smaltz was born in Philadelphia, Febru- 
ary 17, 1793, and was baptized in the German Reformed 
Church. In 1813 he was received into the communion 
of the Reformed Dutch Church in Philadelphia, and 
. under its care pursued his studies for the ministry at 
the Theological Seminary at ]S"ew Brunswick, iN". J. 
Licensed to preach the Gospel by the Classis of ^ew 
Brunswick, A. D. 1819, he was employed for three 
years as a missionary in the States of 'New Jersey and 
Maryland. While in the latter State he supplied the 
pulpit of the Third Presbyterian Church, Eutaw Street, 
Baltimore, for three months, and subsequently, for nine 
months, a new Presbyterian organization, which is the 
present Fourth Church, Baltimore. During his labors 
in that city he was ordained to the ministry in 1822, 
by the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia, sitting in 
Gettysburg, Penna. For six months he labored with 
great acceptance as Stated Supply at Wilmington, E". C. 
In 1824 Mr. Smaltz accepted a call to the German Re- 
formed Church, Germantown, Penna. In this charge 
he remained four years, faithfully and successfully 



10 HISTORY OF THE 

preaching the Gospel amid much immorality and un- 
belief. From Germantown he was called to Frederick, 
Md., where for five years he preached with great in- 
dustry, receiving into the communion of the church 
187 new members. On leaving Frederick he came to 
Philadelphia, and served for many months a congrega- 
tion of colored people in the lower part of the city. 
In Trenton, 'N. J., and Harrisburg and Reading, Penna., 
successively, he labored in new church enterprises under 
the auspices of the German Eeformed Church, and was 
instrumental in winning many souls. Eeturning to 
Philadelphia in 1843, he presented to the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia his certificate from the Lebanon Classis 
of the German Reformed Church, and was received and 
installed pastor of the Southwark Church. This was 
his last regular charge. The preaching and pastoral 
labors of Mr. Smaltz were characterized by industry, 
energy, faithfulness, and success. In every place they 
were accompanied by the Holy Spirit with power, and 
added many to the Church.'' 

Oct. 18. Pev. Thomas M. Cunningham was received 
from the Presbytery of Chicago, and, having accepted 
a call from the Alexander Church, was installed pastor 
Oct. 31. At this meeting Pev. E. D. Saunders, Rev. 
Charles H. Ewing, and Rev. Archibald Tudehope, as 
residents north of Market Street, were enrolled as 
members of Presbytery. Rev. Wm. J. Day, a candi- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 11 

date for the ministry, was received from the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia. Rev. David Kennedy was appointed 
Stated Supply of the First Church, Richmond, for one 
year. Mr. Owen Reidy was received as a candidate for 
the ministry. Rev. W. R. Work was authorized to act 
as agent among the churches of the Presbytery, for the 
purpose of raising a sum not exceeding $1500 for the 
the relief of Trinity Church. 

1862. 

January 6 it was ordered that a minute be made of 
the death of the Rev. Archibald Tudehope, a member 
of Presbytery, who departed this life December 6, 1861. 
Mr. Owen Reidy, a candidate, was licensed to preach 
the Gospel. Presbytery resolved that the congregation 
of Trinity Church be advised to take measures to have 
their corporate name changed. Mr. Edward Payson 
Cowan was received as a candidate for the office of the 
ministry, also Mr. J. Thompson Osier, who was, after 
examination, licensed. Presbytery memorialized the 
General Assembly to provide a German hymn-book to 
meet the necessities of the numerous German churches 
in its connection, and for the present authorized the 
German Church to use the hymn-book of the Reformed 
Dutch Church. The pastoral relation of the Rev. Dr. 
West to the Hestonville Church was, at his request, 
dissolved. Mr. F. Donleavy Long was received under 



12 HISTORY OF THE 

the care of Presbytery as a candidate for the ministry. 
Mr. J. D. McClintock and Henry B. Townsend were 
licensed to preach the Gospel. October 7. Mr. John C. 
Bliss was received as a candidate for the ministry. The 
Rev. F. D. Ladd, pastor of Penn Church, having 
departed this life, Rev. Dr. Musgrave was invited by 
the congregation to supply their pulpit for six months, 
and the arrangement was cordially approved by Presby- 
tery. Rev. E. Bailey Smith was received from the 
Presbytery of Potomac. Mr. Sketchly M. Pearce was 
taken under the care of Presbytery as a candidate for 
the Gospel ministry. Rev. A. M. Jelly was appointed 
Stated Supply of Hestonville Church for half of his 
ministerial time. Rev. David Kennedy was called to 
the pastorate of the Port Richmond Cburch, and 
installed October 20th. Mr. John C. Bliss was licensed 
to preach the gospel. 

Obituary Minute of the Rev. F. D. Ladd. 

The Rev. Francis D. Ladd, pastor of the Penn Church, 
departed this life on Monday, July 7, 1862, aged forty- 
two years. This Presbytery, in view of the decease of 
their late co-presbyter, desire to record their deep 
humility, penitence, and sorrow under this divine chas- 
tening, with their thankful testimony to his many Chris- 
tian virtues, his useful life, and his blessed death. Our 
lamented brother, by his faithful performance of all 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 13 

Presbyterial duties, by his intelligent participation in 
the proceedings of this body, by his enlightened zeal for 
the glory of Christ and for the prosperity and exten- 
sion of the church in every sphere of her benevolent 
activity, as vrell as by his assiduous labors among his 
own flock, has bequeathed to us the exaniple of a good 
and faithful servant of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

By his last w^ork of consolation and mercy to the 
wounded and dying on the battle-field of Fair Oaks — a 
work performed in the midst of fatal malaria, and at 
the cost of his life — he has adorned our sacred ofiice 
with the congenial virtues of loyalty, patriotism, and 
humanity. And by the cheerful resignation, the 
assured hope, and the tranquil joy with which at length 
he yielded up his soul to God, he has given us one more 
proof of the blessedness of a Christian's death. While 
we lament his early removal from our church and from 
this community, we would not forget these alleviating 
mercies of the dispensation, nor fail to be admonished 
by it to renewed zeal and diligence in our holy calling. 

1863. 

January 5th, the Rev. Gr. W. Musgrave, D.D., having 
accepted a call from the Penn Presbyterian Congrega- 
tion, arrangements were made for his installation on 
Sabbath evening, the 11th instant. The Rev. John 
Lyle, a foreign minister on probation in the Presbytery 



14 HISTORY OF THE 

of 'New Brunswick, was appointed to labor within the 
bounds of this Presbytery. April 6, the Rev. Robert 
Proctor was received from the Presbytery of Back 
River. The death of the Rev. John McDowell, D.D., 
was announced as having occurred Feb. 13, 1863, and 
a committee appointed to prepare a suitable minute in 
regard to it. A call was presented from Trinity Church 
for the pastoral services of the Rev. John Lyle. Mr. 
John French and Mr. James H. Marr were taken under 
the care of Presbytery as candidates for the ministry. 
The Rev. Edward B. Hodge was licensed to preach the 
gospel. 

Obituary Minute of Dr. McDowell. 

The great Head of the Church having recently re- 
moved by death our honored and beloved co-Presbyter, 
the Rev. John McDowell, D.D., we record our sense of 
loss in his removal and our confidence that what is loss 
to us is gain to him. A volume only could adequately 
set forth his many virtues as a man, friend. Christian, 
and minister of Christ, or the variety and amount of 
labors prosecuted by him, so successfully, during a 
ministry protracted far beyond the ordinary limit. His 
example especially as a Presbyter we can never forget. 
His conscientious, constant, and punctual attendance 
upon the various judicatories of the Church, his readi- 
ness to assume burdens, and his fidelity in performance 
of the various duties imposed upon him, his patience of 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 15 

details, the wisdom of his counsels, his uniform ur- 
banity, whether as presiding officer or in any other 
position he occupied, will always be remembered by 
us, and with devout gratitude to God that it was our 
privilege to be among his contemporaries. In fine, 
Dr. McDowell will ever be in our minds as a model 
Presbyter. "We bow submissively to the dispensation 
of Providence which has removed him from us, hoping 
and praying that our last end may be like his. 

Sabbath Schools. 

April 13. The following report on the subject of 
Sabbath Schools was adopted : — 

Eesolved, 1. That by the parental relation and by 
Divine appointment the religious instruction of child- 
ren rests beyond avoidance upon their parents, and that 
a portion of every Sabbath day should be devoted by 
them to the performance of this duty. 

2. That parents should regard it as their duty to 
have their children, so far as practicable, in the house 
of God on the Sabbath day as worshipers, and under 
their special supervision, nor should they allow them 
to be absent from the religious services held on other 
days, except for weighty reasons. 

3. That the session of each church should exercise 
constant vigilance over the Sabbath School and its 
workings, its classes, and the instruction given in them, 



16 HISTORY OF THE 

to restrain evil tendencies, to provide, develop, and 
encourage good and faithful workers, and remove those 
who are incompetent or unfaithful. 

4. That the children of the church should not be 
permitted by their parents to attend statedly the Sab- 
bath Schools of other denominations. 

5. That mission schools are a valuable means of em- 
ploying the energies of a church, increasing its influ- 
ence and strength, elevating the ignorant and depraved, 
and evangelizing neighborhoods ; and that our churches 
should exert themselves to establish and support such 
schools. 

6. That the instruction in Sabbath Schools should be 
free from lightness, and, as far as practicable, from secu- 
lar matter, and should be grave and Scriptural, tending 
to holiness and salvation. 

7. That the Sunday-school literature of our day 
needs revision and expurgation, and requires the atten- 
tion of Sessions as to the contents of the library, and of 
parents as to the volumes perused by their children. 

8. That in order to the highest spiritual advantage 
to be derived from the Sabbath on the part of the 
teachers, and in order to afford opportunity both for 
parental instruction at home, and for the children and 
youth to attend the regular services of the sanctuary, 
it is recommended to all our churches to have but one 
session of the Sabbath School on the Sabbath. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 17 

9. That it be enjoined upon all who have the charge 
of our Sabbath Schools that they instruct the children 
regularly in the doctrines of the Bible, as they are em- 
bodied in our standards. 

10. That Sessions should direct special attention to 
secure that parents in their communion faithfully dis- 
charge the duties specified above. 

11. That pastors be requested to read these resolu- 
tions in their churches, and to preach on some conve- 
nient occasion on the subject of Sabbath School Instruc- 
tion and Discipline. 

July 6. The Eev. Arthur W. Milby, of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church, after due examination, and on 
the presentation of testimonials, was received as a mem- 
ber of Presbytery. 

Oct. 5. Mr. J. R. Dewing, Mr. H. W. Rubinkam, 
Mr. Benjamin A. Dean, and Mr. James A. McGowan 
were received as candidates for the ministry. Rev. A. 
M. Jelly asked leave to resign his pastoral charge of 
Belmont Church. A preaching station was appointed 
in the hall, corner of Seventeenth and Poplar streets, 
to be under charge of the Rev. H. F. Lee. 

October 23d. Rev. G. W. McPhail, D.D., was received 
from the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia. Nov. 30 
Rev L. H. Christian, D.D., asked leave to resign the 
pastoral charge of the IsTorth Church. The pastoral 
relation of Rev. A. M. Jelly to Belmont Church was 



18 HISTORY OF THE 

dissolved. Mr. Ambrose C. Smith, a candidate for the 
ministry, was received from the Presbytery of Donegal. 

1864. 

Jan. 1. Mr. William H. Hodge was, at his request, 
examined with a view to his ordination as an Evangel- 
ist, and the examination proving satisfactory, this ser- 
vice was performed at an adjourned meeting of Presby- 
tery in the Second Church, on the 4th. The pastoral 
relation between the Rev. L. H. Christian, D.D., and 
the ITorth Church was dissolved. Mr. John Peacock 
and Mr. Robert A. Davison were received as candidates 
for the ministry. The Rev. John Lyle having removed 
to another Presbytery, the call from Trinity Church to 
him was returned to said church. Dr. W. A. Piper and 
Rev. George Locker were appointed a committee to ex- 
amine localities suitable for the First German Church. 

April 4. The death of the Rev. Henry Steele Clarke, 
D.D., was reported as having occurred January 17, 
1864, and a committee was appointed to prepare a suit- 
able minute. Mr. Sylvanus Sayre was received as a 
candidate for the ministry. Messrs. E. P. Cowan, R. 
A. Davison, Benj. A. Dean, and Ambrose C. White, 
S. M. Pearce, and J. H. Marr were licensed to preach 
the Gospel. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 19 

Death of Rev. Henry Steele Clarke, D.D. 

As a sketcli of Dr. Clarke had gone to press in the 
history of the Presbytery of Philadelphia (see page 
251) before this point was reached in the Minutes of the 
Presbytery of Philadelphia Central, it is only deemed 
necessary to insert here the concluding part of this 
Presbytery's obituary notice of Dr. Clarke. 

" While Dr. Clarke's own flock are deeply afflicted 
in losing a most devoted and beloved pastor, and while 
the whole church has been deprived of the services of 
an able and faithful minister, we especially feel as a 
Presbytery a sad vacancy in our counsels and com- 
panionship. The intelligent zeal with which he parti- 
cipated in the proceedings of this body, his regularity 
and fidelity in performing its duties, and the Christian 
charity and courtesy which marked his intercourse with 
his brethren form a bright example which w^e would 
not merely place upon our records, but thankfully 
cherish in our hearts and copy in our lives." 

April 25. Eev. John Ewing was received on certifi- 
cate from the Presbytery of Ohio, accepted a call from 
Trinity Church, and arrangements were made for his 
installation on the second day of May next. 

July 4. The Eev. John Moore was received on certifi- 
cate from the Presbytery of Huntingdon. Rev. E. W. 
Henry, D.D., was called to the pastorate of the North 
Church. 



20 HISTORY OF THE 

October 3. Dr. R. W. Henry having accepted the call 
to the I^orth Church, arrangements were made for his 
installation on the 12th inst. The death of the Rev. 
Nathaniel West, D.D., was announced, and a committee 
was appointed to prepare a minute in reference to that 
event. The Rev. George Locker was appointed Domestic 
Missionary to supply the First German Church, Phila- 
delphia, and the German congregation at Phoenixville. 
A call was presented from the Central Church for the 
pastoral labors of Rev. Alexander Reed, of Parkesburg, 
Pa. Presbytery having before them the Address 
of the J^ational Association for the amendment of the 
Constitution, approved the objects of the Association 
as expressed in their Address and their Memorial to 
Congress. 

Obituary Minute of Dr. "West. 

" The Rev. l!Tathaniel West, D.D., departed this life 
September 2, 1864. Deceased was born in Ulster, Ire- 
land, A. D. 1794, and entered the ministry in the 
Independent Connection in Hull, England, in 1821. He 
inimigrated to the United States in 1834, and has 
resided in this city for the last eleven years. At the 
time of his death he was senior chaplain hi the Satterlee 
U. S. Military Hospital, West Philadelphia, and was 
both in years and in ministry the senior member of 
this Presbytery. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 21 

Dr. West was a man of marked peculiarities and of 
abundant labors. His frame was large and robust, his 
health vigorous, and his spirits exuberant. Of great 
energy of character and memory unusually retentive, 
of varied observation and extensive reading, his minis- 
trations were characterized by quaintness, clearness, and 
strength. 

This Presbytery make record of his decease from 
among them with humble recognition of the sovereignty 
of that God who appoints to His servants their gifts, 
their time and place of service, and the time and cir- 
cumstances when their earthly labors shall cease. 

They receive it as a renewed admonition to be dili- 
gent in their labors for Christ, since '' the night cometh 
in which no man can work." 

I^ovember 7. The Rev. R. W. Henry, D.D., was 
installed pastor of the North Church, l^ov. 2. The 
death of the Rev. Dr. Christian having been announced 
the following action was taken: — 

Minute on the Death of Dr. Christian. 

The Rev. Levi H. Christian, D.D., a member of this 
body, and late Pastor of the JS'orth Presbyterian Church, 
Philadelphia, departed this life October 23, 1864, after 
an illness of more than a year. The deceased was born 
in the city of Albany, 1^. Y., in 1817, made profession 
of faith at Morristown, IST. J., at the age of 12 years. 



22 HISTORY OF THE 

was graduated at the College of IsTew Jersey with the 
second honors of his class in 1840, and was licensed to 
preach in 1844. In the 20 years of his ministry Dr. 
Christian labored at various places both East and West, 
and everywhere and always commended himself to every 
man's conscience in the sight of God as a conscientious, 
faithful, and fearless ambassador for Christ, as a spiritual 
and able expounder of the word of God. 

This Presbytery makes record of his decease with a 
lively remembrance of his worth as a minister, a 
Presbyter, and a brother beloved in the Lord. They 
rejoice in the grace of Christ which abounded towards 
him during his long illness, sustaining him in patience 
and hope to the end, and, especially, giving to him a 
departure from this mortal life not only in peace but in 
utterances of holy joy and triumph. 

]^ovember 28. The Eev. Alexander Eeed having 
accepted the call of the Central Church, arrangements 
were made for his installation on the 11th of December, 
if the way be clear. 

1865. 

January 2. The Kev. Alfred Taylor was authorized 
and recommended to begin labors near the upper end of 
Eleventh Street, with a view to establish a church in 
that vicinity. Rev. W. J. Day was licensed to preach 
the gospel. Eev. G. W. McPhail, D.D., was appointed 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 23 

Stated Supply to the Belmont Church for three 
months. April 3. Rev. Alfred Taylor was received 
from the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia. Rev. J. 
T. Osier was ordained as an Evangelist. The Rev. J. 
P. Conkey was recommended to the sympathy and 
liberal cooperation of pastors and people in the establish- 
ment of a church in the northwestern part of the city. 
May 1. The decease of the Rev. S. K. Kollock, D.D., 
and of the Rev. Daniel Glaston was reported, and a 
committee was appointed to prepare suitable minutes. 
Dr. Edwards asked leave to resign the pastoral charge 
of West Arch Street Church. 

Obituary Minute of Dr. Kollock. 

"Whereas, it has pleased Almighty Grod since our last 
meeting to remove from our midst by death the Rev. 
Shepard K. Kollock, D.D., this Presbytery of which he 
was a member would place upon their records this brief 
tribute to his memory. 

Dr. Kollock was born at Elizabeth town, ^. J., June 
25, 1795, and was graduated with honors from Prince- 
ton College in 1811, when he was but little more than 
sixteen years of age. In 1812, during a remarkable 
revival of religion in the Presbyterian Church of Eliza- 
bethtown, he became a hopeful convert of grace, and 
soon after commenced the study of theology with his 
brother-in-law, the Rev. Dr. John McDowell, pastor of 



24 ^ HISTORY OF THE 

the church. These studies he completed with his 
brother, Dr. Henry Kollock, of Savannah, and was 
licensed to preach the gospel in June, 1814, when he 
was hardly nineteen years of age. After exercising his 
gifts for three or more years in Georgia, he visited 
IN'orth Carolina, where he soon received a call to become 
pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Oxford. This 
he accepted, and he was duly ordained to the ministry 
May 2, 1818. Having served this Church and other 
parts of Granville Co., !N. C, with zeal and acceptance 
a short time, he was chosen Professor of Ehetoric and 
Logic in the University of that state. This post he 
filled till 1825, when he was called to the charge of 
the Presbyterian Church, IN'orfolk, Ya. This call he 
accepted, and in this post he remained ten years. He 
then returned to isTew Jersey and became successively 
the Agent of the General Assembly's Board of Domestic 
Missions, the pastor of the Church in Burlington and 
in Greenwich. In 1860 he removed to this city and 
became chaplain in various benevolent institutions on 
the foundation created by the late Elias Boudinot. 
This office he faithfully discharged until about two 
years since, when, his health failing, he retired to great 
privacy, and on April 7, 1865, departed this life, aged 
70 years. 

Dr. Kollock was a man of eminent gifts and graces. 
Especially prominent among the virtues which adorned 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 25 

his character were his honesty, simplicity, humility, and 
charity. As a preacher he shone with no ordinary 
brilliance. His sermons were generally delivered with- 
out manuscript, were eminently perspicuous in plan, and 
were richly freighted with the marrow of the gospel. 
Truly, in view of his life and character, we may say 
that in human judgment he merited the plaudit which 
we doubt not he has already received from the Master, 
" Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into 
the joy of thy Lord." 

July 3. Mr. John Sparhawk Jones and Mr. Wm. S. 
Steen were received as candidates for the ministry. 
The Rev. Mr. Conkey, at his own request, was released 
from further ministerial service in the northern part of 
the city. 

October 2. The pastoral relation between Dr. Shields 
and the Second Church was, at his own request, dis- 
solved. It was announced that the Eev. Alfred Taylor 
had discontinued his labors in Camac Street and vicinity. 

^ov, 6. Rev. E. R. Beadle, D.D., was received from 
the Presbytery of Rochester City. A call was presented 
from the Second Church for the pastoral services of Dr. 
Beadle. A call was presented from the Cohocksink 
Church for the pastoral services of Rev. S. A. Mutch- 
more of the Presbytery of St. Louis. Dr. Beadle hav- 
ing accepted the call in his hands, his installation 
was appointed for N^ov. 12th. 



26 HISTORY OF THE 

1866. 

January 1. Mr. Henry Hall was received as a candi- 
date for the ministry. 

Minute on the Death of the Rev. James R. Johnston. 

" Eev. James R. Johnston died at Burlington, isT. J., 
on June 16, 1865. His infirm health had for several 
years disabled him from any stated labors in the 
ministrj^, and except in an occasional sermon at rare 
intervals, and in his attendance upon the sessions of 
Presbytery, his gifts and attainments were but little 
known among us. In former years, however, he was 
active, gifted, and useful. His ministry extended over 
more than forty years. His licensure in 1824, and his 
ordination in 1826, were in connection with the 
Reformed Presbyterian Church. In 1830 he became a 
member of the Presbytery of 'New York, under the 
care of the General Assembly, and in regard to the 
questions of doctrine and order then pending, identified 
himself with the Old School. He was pastor succes- 
sively at Mobile, Ala. (which church he organized), 
Goshen, K Y., and Hamptonbufgh, K Y. The last 
named church, on his accepting their call, changed their 
relation from the Associate E-eformed to the General 
Assembly. In each of these charges he gained warm 
friends, and was held in good repute for talents, learn- 
ing, soundness, prudence, and piety. It is said that for 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 27 

his pleasant voice and manner he was styled the silver- 
tongued. To us he was chiefly known as a Presbyter 
of gravity, discrimination, wisdom, and modesty, but it 
is pleasant to record on our Minutes at least the out- 
lines of the labors and the traits of his earlier career in 
other parts of the Master's vineyard. His best record 
is on high. 

" His death crowned his life. In a lengthened and 
weary decline, attended at times with great suffering, 
his patience never once gave way. With beautiful and 
edifying resignation he waited for God, and was more and 
more strengthened by His grace and cheered by His 
presence, until in holy hope and joy he departed, a 
conqueror through the grace of Christ." 

Obituary Notice of the Rev. Daniel Gaston. 

" The Rev. Daniel Gaston, a member of this Presby- 
ter}^, departed this life on the 29th day of April, in the 
sixty-fifth year of his age, after a painful illness of three 
or four weeks' duration. He was the youngest son of 
Joseph Gaston, of ISTorthumberland County, Pa. The 
child of pious parents, it is believed that in early life 
he was made a partaker of the redemption purchased 
by Christ. 

" While yet a young man he showed an aptitude for 
mathematical studies and practical surveying. His 
spirituality was manifested in the gift and grace of 



28 HISTORY OF THE 

prayer. While on a visit to Milton he met the Rev. 
Dr. George Junkin, who was the first, so far as is 
known, to turn his attention to the subject of studying 
for the gospel ministry. After some years of academic 
and collegiate training under Mr. Kirkpatrick in Mil- 
ton, Pa., and under Dr. Junkin in Grermantown and 
Easton, he entered the Theological Seminary at Prince- 
ton, E". J., in the year 1835, and was licensed to preach 
the gospel by the Presbytery of JSTewton in 1837. 

"After a season of missionary labor at Beaver 
Meadow, Pa., Mr. Gaston was ordained and installed 
pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that place in the 
year 1838 or 1839. His ministry at Beaver Meadow, 
Conyngham, and neighboring places, before and after 
his ordination, extended through six or seven years, 
and a blessing was upon his labors. 

" Having received a call to the Cohocksink Presby- 
terian Church, Philadelphia, he was translated and 
placed in charge of that congregation as its pastor in 
the year 1844, and he continued in that pastoral charge 
until his decease, a period of more than twenty years. 

" The memory of the just is blessed, and they that 
turn many to righteousness shall shine. During Mr. 
Gaston's ministry in the Cohocksink Church, several 
seasons of refreshing were experienced, the harmony 
and stability of the congregation were increased, the 
number of professing Christians in connection with it 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 29 

was much enlarged, and all its pecuniary indebtedness 
was removed. A comparison of the condition of that 
church at the time of his coming to it with that in 
which it was when he departed, abundantly exhibits 
what large and happy results the Lord accomplished 
through the services of our brother. 

" Mr. Gaston's doctrinal views were clear and ortho- 
dox, and his enunciation of them distinct and instructive. 
His capacity for work in the holy ministry was well 
attested, and he was a workman that needed not to be 
ashamed. Were we to portray him in one sentence, it 
would be this, — he was eminently a man of Christian 
principle — conscientious, modest, and persevering. 

" "We spread upon our Presbyterial records this brief 
tribute to his memory, thus testifying our adoring 
gratitude to his Eedeemer and ours, and the sense we 
cherish of our departed brother Gaston. We hope 
through grace to meet him again, before the throne of 
God and the Lamb, and to serve and worship with him 
in a better country. 'For if we believe that Jesus 
died and rose again, even so them also that sleep in 
Jesus will God bring with him.' " 

The E-ev. Dr. A. [N^evin introduced the following 
resolution, which, after discussion, was referred to a 
committee to report on the subject at the next meeting 
of Presbytery : Eesolved, that this Presbytery sustain 
the action of the last General Assembly in regard to the 



30 HISTORY OF THE 

reconstruction of the Presbyterian Churches I^orth and 
Sourth. Mr. W. H. Thomas was taken under the care 
of Presbytery as a candidate for the gospel ministry. 

Circulation of Secular Papers on the Lord's Day. 

The following resolutions, introduced by E-ev. Dr. 
Musgrave, were unanimously adopted : — 

Resolved^ That in the judgment of this Presbytery, 
the publication and circulation of secular papers on the 
Lord's day is a flagrant breach both of the law of God 
and the laws of this Commonwealth, and ought to be 
discountenanced by every patriot and Christian. 

Resolved^ That the reading of such papers on the 
Lord's day is in violation of that day, and inconsistent 
with Christian character. 

Resolved^ That these resolutions be published from 
the pulpits of our several churches, and that our pastors 
be requested to preach on this subject at their con- 
venience. 

January 15. Eev. George Locker and the First Ger- 
man Church were, by request of the congregation, dis- 
missed to the Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia. 

Thank-O fife ring for Peace. 

January 22. Presbytery, in offering thanks to Al- 
mighty God for bringing to an end the war, resolved 
that " we, as a Presbytery, realize it as our duty, as a 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 81 

part of this marvelloasly delivered and disenthralled 
nation, to render a thank-offering to Grod, in the inaugu- 
ration of a special effort to lengthen the cords and 
strengthen the stakes of our beloved Zion, within the 
bounds of our ecclesiastical jurisdiction." A conven- 
tion of ministers, ruling elders, and church members 
was called to meet February 5 to devise ways and 
means whereby this great work might be accomplished. 
February 5. The pastoral relation of the Rev. David 
Kennedy to the Richmond Church was, at his request, 
dissolved. March 13. The pastoral relation of the Rev. 
Dr. Edwards to the West Arch Street Church was, 
at his request, dissolved. 

April 2. Rev. Alexander Scott was received from 
the Presbytery - of California. The interests of the 
Ashmun Institute were referred to a committee. Rev. 
J. P. Conkey was received from the Presbytery of 
West Jersey. Edward P. Heberton and W. S. Steen 
were received as candidates for the ministry. Mr. J. 
S. Jones and Mr. Sylvanus Sayre were licensed to preach 
the gospel. April 3. The following report was made 
by a committee appointed for the purpose and 
adopted : — 

Increase of the Ministry. 

" It is essential to the wants of the Great Missionary 
Field of our own country and of the pagan and anti- 
Christian world, as well as in view of the calls from some 



32 HISTORY OF THE 

parts of the churcli, in the older sections thereof, that 
the number of the ministry be increased. This state- 
ment is not invalidated by the fact that there are some 
ministers without charge, on account of their engage- 
ments, collateral with the work of preaching, or of in- 
firmities, or of age. The wants of a dying world should 
be laid before the churches that parents, teachers, and 
others may pray and labor toward their supply, and 
that the attention of pious and competent young men 
may be turned in that direction." 

Preaching Stations. 

The committee on new churches reported that the 
preaching stations in operation twelve months ago in 
the northern part of the city — the one in the Wagner 
Institute and the other in Camac Street — were discon- 
tinued, and that the preaching of the gospel was recom- 
menced under (it is believed) more promising auspices 
by the Eev. Mr. Conkey in the hall at the corner of 
Montgomery Avenue and Twelfth Street. The Rev. 
Morris C. Sutphen requested and obtained leave to re- 
sign the pastoral charge of the Spring Garden Church. 

May 7. Eev. Sylvanus Sayre was ordained as an 
evangelist. A committee was appointed to visit the 
ground occupied by the Rev. J. P. Conkey as a mis- 
sionary field, and organize, if the way be clear, a church 
in that place. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 33 

June 5. Eev. D. A. Cunningham was received from 
the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and, having accepted a 
call from the Spring Garden Church, arrangements 
were made for his installation June 20. 

July 2. Mr. W. W. Heberton was received as a 
candidate for the ministry. The Committee on the 
organization of " Memorial Church," at 12th and 
Montgomery Avenue, reported that the church had 
been duly organized on May 22. Rev. A. M. Jelly ac- 
cepted a call to Port Richmond Church, and arrange- 
ments were made for his installation on Thursday, 
July 12. 

Oct. 1. Leave was granted to R. W. Landis, D.D., to 
labor within the bounds of the Presbytery. Candidate 
William S. Steen was licensed to preach the gospel. Rev. 
John Lyon was received from the Presbytery of Carlisle. 
October 15. Rev. J. Sinclair was received as a member 
of Presbytery. l!^ov. 12. Rev. A. W. Milby was, at his 
request, dismissed to the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

1867. 

January 7. Rev. S. A. Mutchmore was received from 
the Presbytery of St. Louis. Mr. William C. Brobston 
was received as a candidate for the ministry. Rev. E. 
D. Ledyard was licensed to preach the gospel. Mr. Ed- 
ward Capp was taken under the care of Presbytery as 
a candidate for the ministry. Rev. John Moore was 



34 . ' HISTORY OF THE 

appointed Stated Supply of the Hestonville Church for 
six months. Kev. S. A. Mutchmore having accepted a 
call from the Cohocksink Church, arrangements were 
made for his installation on Jan. 17. 

April 1. Rev. Alfred Paull was received from the 
Presbytery of Washington. The corporate title of the 
Penn Church w^as reported as legally changed to that 
of the E"orth Tenth Street Presbyterian Church, and 
the change was approved by Presbytery. Rev. William 
Speer, D.D., was received from the Presbytery of 
Southern Minnesota. Rev. J. G. Bolton was received 
as a candidate for the ministry. Rev. T. J. Aiken 
and J. A. McGowan were licensed to preach the gospel. 

April 8. Rev. E. M. Long of the Gei'man Reformed 
Classis of Philadelphia was received on certificate from 
that body. 

May 28. Rev. John Moore was appointed Stated 
Supply of Hestonville Church for six months. Rev. 
A. A. Willits, D.D., was received from the North 
Classis of Long Island, and, having accepted a call at 
the West Arch Street Church, arrangements were made 
for his installation on June 2. 

June 24. The pastoral relation of Rev. R. M. Patter- 
son to Great Yalley Church was, at his request, dis- 
solved, and Mr. Patterson was dismissed to the 
Presbytery of Philadelphia. July 8. The Memorial 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 35 

Church was dissolved. Mr^ C. Eene Gregory was 
received as a candidate for the ministry. 

Oct. 14th. The Rev. Alfred Paull was appointed 
Stated Supply of the Hestonville Church for six months. 
The Committee on the union of the two branches of 
the Presbyterian Church reported in favor of a union, 
provided it can be effected on a sound doctrinal basis. 
Mr. E. P. Heberton was licensed to preach the gospel. 

1868. 

January 13th. Mr. Edward Dillon was received as a 
candidate for the ministry. Rev. H. B. Lambe was 
received from the Presbytery of Warren. Rev. E. P. 
Heberton having accepted a call from the Great Valley 
Church, arrangements were made for his ordination 
and installation on the second Monday of April. Mr. 
H. R. Hall was licensed to preach the gospel. Feb. 3. 
The report of the Committee on the Sabbath question 
was unanimously adopted. 

Church at Jacksonville, Florida. 

A petition from the officers and members of the 
Presbyterian Church of Jacksonville, Florida, asking 
to be taken under the care of this Presbytery, was pre- 
sented, and as the Presbytery of Florida with which 
they were formerly connected had seceded from the 
General Assembly, and there was no other Presbytery 



86 HISTORY OF THE 

within the state of Florida, adhering to the Assembly 
with which the petitioners could be connected, their 
petition was granted. 

April 13. A call was presented from the Hestonville 
Church to the Rev. Alfred Paull for his pastoral ser- 
vices, and Mr. Paull had leave to retain it in his hands 
until the Fall meeting. 

July 13. Rev. J. W. Schenck was received from the' 
Reformed Classis of Philadelphia. Mr. James K. 
Wilson and Mr. l!^. J. Rubenkam were received as 
candidates for the ministry. July 14. Mr. E. P. Capp 
was licensed to preach the gospel. 

October 12. The pastoral relation of Rev. Dr. Mus- 
grave to the ^orth Tenth Street Church, at his request, 
was dissolved. The Rev. George W. Burroughs was 
received from the Presbytery of Il^assau. The Rev. 
Alfred Paull accepted the call given him from the 
Hestonville Church. 

1860. 

January 11. Rev. Matthew IN'ewkirk was received 
from the Presbytery of ^N'ew Castle, and, having ac- 
cepted a call from the North Tenth Church, arrange- 
ments were made for his installation January 17, 1869. 
The Rev. W. Jarrett was received under the care of 
the Presbytery as a Foreign Minister on probation. 
Rev. Alfred Paull was installed pastor of the Heston- 
ville Church, February 7th. 



PRESBYTERY OE PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 37 

Re-Union. 

The following paper was offered by the Rev. G. 
W. Musgrave, D.D., and unanimously and cordially 
adopted : — 

"Whereas, both branches of the Presbyterian Church 
have expressed their agreement in doctrine and polity, 
and whereas their reunion without any unnecessary 
delay is highly desirable, Therefore, 

Resolved^ 1. That we cordially approve of reunion on 
the basis of our common standards, pure and simple, 
leaving all matters which have been the subjects of 
negotiation between the two (branches) bodies to be 
afterwards settled by the united Church. 

Resolved^ 2. That we respectfully suggest to all Pres- 
byteries of both branches which may approve of the 
foregoing resolution to adopt the same, in order that the 
Assemblies may consummate the union upon this basis 
without further negotiation or delay. 

April 12. Arrangements were made for the ordina- 
tion of Mr. E. P. Capp as a Missionary to China on 
April 19. C. R. Gregory and "William W. Heberton 
were licensed to preach the gospel. 

Overture Approved. 

July 12. The overture on the union of the two 
branches of the Presbyterian Church sent down to the 
(4) 



38 HISTORY OF THE 

Presbyteries by the last General Assembly was 
approved. 

Rev. Dr. T. M. Cunningham's pastoral relation to the 
Alexander Church was, at his request, dissolved. 

September 27. E,ev. John Ewing's pastoral relation to 
Trinity Church was, at his request, dissolved. October 
11. Eev. W. W. McNair was received from the Pres- 
bytery of Chippewa. Mr. W. P. Patterson, Jr., was 
received from the Presbytery of i^ew Castle as a candi- 
date for the ministry. 

^-: 1870. 

January 10. Mr. Clarence Geddes was received as a 
candidate for the ministry. The pastoral relation of 
Rev. J. W. Porter and the church of Charlestown was 
dissolved. The death of the Rev. R. "W. Henry, D.D., 
was announced, and a committee was appointed to pre- 
pare a suitable minute. A call from the Trinity 
Church to Rev. R. A. Brown was presented and 
accepted. April 19. Rev. George P. Cain was received 
from the Presbytery of Erie. The committee on new 
churches reported that, as directed, a church had been 
organized in due form under the name of the Columbia 
Avenue Presbyterian Church. A call from Alexander 
Church for the pastoral services of the Rev. George F. 
Cain was presented. The Rev. William H. Hodge was 
received from the Presbytery of Connecticut, accepted 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 39 

a call from the Columbia Avenue Church, and arrange- 
ments made for his installation on June 20. 

Obituary Notice of Dr. R. W. Henry. 

"Whereas, the Central Presbytery of Philadelphia 
have received intelligence of the decease of their late 
beloved brother and co-presbyter, the Rev. R. W. 
Henry, D.D., while on an Eastern tour at Alexandria, 
Egypt, on the 18th day of October, 1869, therefore. 

Resolved^ 1. That it is with deep sorrow they have 
heard of this bereavement, and whilst they deeply feel 
and mourn their loss, they bow submissively and with 
acquiescence to the Sovereign will of the all-wise Re- 
deemer, recognizing His right to order all the affairs of 
His Church according to the counsel of His own will, 
and acknowledging His grace and faithfulness to His 
servant in the abounding consolations and unwavering 
assurance wherewith he filled his heart, although far 
from home, and in the midst of strangers, and in the 
tender compassion wherewith he at length so gently 
unlocked the earthly tenement. 

Resolved^ 2. That this Presbytery bear their united 
and cordial testimony to the uniform and consistent 
piety of their departed brother, to his love for souls, 
his devotion to the interest of the church, and his zeal 
for the glory of Christ : and that as a man he was emi- 
nently kind, amiable and courteous, as a Christian he 
was consistent and devoted, as a minister of the Lord 



40 HISTORY OP THE 

Jesus Christ, as a preacher of the word, and as a pastor 
he was most faithful. 

JResolved^ 3. This Presbytery would express their 
gratitude to God for the efficient labors of His servant 
in the church on earth, and they rejoice in the assur- 
ance that, having served the Master faithfully in his 
day, he has been taken to his reward in heaven ; and 
they would be reminded by his sudden departure that 
the time is short, and that the night cometh in which 
no man can work. 

May 3. The call from the Alexander Church to Rev. 
Geo. F. Cain was placed in his hands, accepted, and ar- 
rangements made for his installation on May 9. Sabbath 
evening, May 15, was appointed for the installation of 
Rev. R. A. Brown as pastor of Trinity Church. May 
16. The Rev. B. L. Agnew was received from the 
Presbytery of Philadelphia, accepted a call from the 
!N"orth Church, and arrangements were made for his 
installation on the ensuing Sabbath afternoon. 

Organization of Presbjrtery after the Reunion. 

After the reunion of the two branches of the Presby- 
terian Church in the U. S. A., the General Assembly 
met in the First Presbyterian Church in the city of 
Philadelphia, and there adopted what is entitled the 
" Enabling Act of 1870" for the reconstruction of the 
Synods throughout the entire church, the 8th section 
of which act reads as follows : — 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 41 

" 8. The Sjnod of Philadelphia is hereby constituted 
to consist of the Presbyteries and parts of Presbyteries 
included in the district between the eastern line of 
Pennsylvania and the west lines of the counties of 
Bradford, Sullivan, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Lebanon, and 
York, and to it are also attached the Presbyteries of 
Western Africa, to meet on the 21st of June, 1870, 
at 8 P. M., in Spring Garden Church, Philadelphia, 
and to be opened with a sermon by Rev. C. W. Stew- 
art, or, in his absence, by , and the Synod of 

Philadelphia is hereby declared to be the legal successor 
of the Synods of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, and 
as such is entitled to the possession and enjoyment of 
all the rights and franchises, and liable for the perform- 
ance of all the duties of those Synods." 

1870. 

In pursuance of the foregoing act the Synod of 
Philadelphia met in the Spring Garden Church at the 
time specified and was regularly organized. At this 
meeting of Synod an act was passed reorganizing the 
Presbyteries within its bounds, the 2d section of which 
act reads as follows : — 

"XL The Presbytery of Philadelphia Central is 
hereby constituted to consist of the ministers and 
churches in the city and county of Philadelphia, be- 
tween the centre of Market Street and the centre of 



42 HISTORY OF THE 

Allegheny Avenue, and the Delaware river and the 
western line of the city, to meet in the Spring Garden 
Church on the 23d of June, 1870, immediately after 
the adjournment of the Synod ; the Eev. George W. 
Musgrave, D.D., or in his absence the oldest minister 
present, to preside until a Moderator is chosen, and the 
Freshytery of Philadelphia Central is hereby declared to 
be the legal successor of the Central Presbytery of Phila- 
delphia^ and of the Presbytery of Philadelphia Third, and 
as such is entitled to the possession and enjoyment of 
all the rights and franchises, and liable to the perform- 
ance of all the duties of those Presbyteries." 

A true copy of the act of the Synod of Philadelphia. 
Signed, Wm. E. Moore, 

Stated Clerk. 

First Meeting of Presbytery. 

In pursuance of the foregoing act of the Synod of 
Philadelphia, the Presbytery of Philadelphia Central 
met in the Spring Garden Church immediately after 
the adjournment of Synod on Thursday, June 23, 1870, 
at IJ o'clock P. M., and was called to order and opened 
with prayer by the Rev. George W. Musgrave, D.D., 
LL.D. Rev. W. T. Eva was elected Moderator ; Rev. 
B. L. Agnew, Stated Clerk ; Rev. James Y. Mitchell, 
Permanent Clerk ; Mr. Gilbert Combs, Temporary 
Clerk ; and Mr. J. A. Gardner, Treasurer. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 



43 



Candidates under the Care of Presbytery at its Organization. 

F. Donleavy Long, E. H. Scott, 

Wm. C. Brobston, C. Rene Gregory, 



James G. Bolton, 
E. Dillon, 
N. J. Rublnkam, 
Wm. McDuffee, 
William Wiely, 
Gerald F. Dale, 

Ministers in Presbytery 

James M. Olmstead, D.D., 

Michael Burdett, 

W. M. Cornell, D.D., 

Geo. W. Musgrave, D.D., LL.D., 

Peter Parker, 

Jeremiah Miller, 

Ephraim D. Saunders, D.D., 

James Clark, D.D., 

W. W. Taylor, 

Wm. R. Work, 

William T. Eva, 

James G. Shinn, 

Peter Stryker, D.D., 

A. A. Willits, D.D., 

Alfred Paull, 

John W. Mears, D.D., 

John Moore, 

E. J. Pierce, 

Edwin M. Long, 



Edward Guillon, 
James K. Wilson, 
Augustus F. Vollmer, 
Wm. P. Patterson, 
Clarence Geddes, 
C. Baldy Austin. 

at its Organization. 

Leeds K. Berridge, 

T. J. Shepherd, D.D., 

Samuel Fulton, 

Chas. E. Ford, 

Charles F. Diver, 

G. F. Wisnell, D.D., 

John Lyon, 

W. O. Johnstone, 

Wm. Speer, D.D., 

Geo. W. Burroughs, 

S. A. Mutchmore, 

Henry A. Smith, 

Frank L. Bobbins, 

Alex. Scott, 

^. Addison Henry, 

George Locher, 

A. M. Jelly, 

J. Hervey Beale, 

W. B. Culliss, 



44 HISTORY OF THE 

Francis Hendricks, Matthew Newkirk, 

Robert A. Brown, J. L. Withrow, 

George W. Cox, Geo. F. Cain, 

James Y, Mitchell, W. H. Hodge, 

J. T. G. Jennison, M. P. Jones, 

Alex. Reed, D.D., Thos. J. Brown, 

D. A. Cunningham, W. W. McNair, 

B. L. Agnew, Sylvanus Sayre. 

Election of Moderators. 

Oct. 4 it was resolved that in the election of Mode- 
rators of Presbytery the roll be gone through with 
beginning at the top of the roll and the Moderator be 
chosen according to seniority of ordination. The pas- 
toral relation of Rev. P. Stryker, D.D., to the J^orth 
Broad Street Church, was, at his request, dissolved. 
The Standing Rules of Presbytery were adopted. The 
death of the Rev. N^athaniel Frost, Chaplain in the U. 
S. ^avy, and formerly member of the Third Presby- 
tery, was reported as having occurred July 14, 1868. 

1871. 

Jan. 3. The death of the Rev. James M. Olmstead, 
D.D., was announced, and a committee appointed to pre- 
pare a suitable minute in regard to it. Permission was 
grante~d Cohocksink Church to occupy the territory 
west of ISTinth Street, east of Broad, and north of 
Montgomery, as ground for a missionary enterprise. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 45 

Total Abstinence. 

Presbytery unanimously endorsed the action of Sjmod 
in " recommending the cause of total abstinence from 
the use and traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage, 
to the prayers, labors, and support of the churches 
under its care." 

Obituary Notice of Rev. Dr. Olmstead. 

"Whereas, the Rev. James M. Olmstead, D.D., a 
member of the Presbytery of Philadelphia Central, was 
on the 16th day of October, 1870, called to his rest and 
reward, therefore, 

" Besolved^ 1. That we the members of this Presbytery 
who are still left to pray and toil on in the service of 
our divine Master, express our high appreciation of the 
Christian character and ministerial faithfulness of our 
departed brother and father, who was wise in counsel 
and lovely in life. 

" Resolved^ 2. That we express our gratitude to the 
Great Head of the Church for the long and useful life 
of his servant, honored as he was during a ministry of 
more than forty years, in gathering many precious souls 
into the kingdom, and training them for a place among 
the ransomed. 

''' Hesolved, 3. That we recognize in the calm and 
peaceful departure of this man of God, the power of 
divine grace to give to the believer in Jesus the sweet 



46 HISTORY OF THE 

assurance of acceptance, and lift the soul above all fear 
of death and the grave." 

April 4. The pastoral relation of Rev. Gr. F. Cain 
to the Alexander Church was, at his request, dissolved. 
Mr. Edwin W. Long was received as a candidate for the 
ministry. April 10. Eev. Robert D. Harper, D.D., 
was received from the Presbytery of Indianapolis. Dr. 
Harper having accepted a call from the North Broad 
Street Church, arrangements were made for his instal- 
lation on the 4th Sabbath in April. 

Presbyterian Hospital. 

Presbytery, after recognizing the noble and generous 
offer of the Rev. E. D. Saunders, D.D., of his property 
in West Philadelphia, to the Presbyterian Alliance, 
for the purposes of a Presbyterian Hospital, and the 
acceptance of the offer by that body, commended 
strongly the work of establishing the Hospital to the 
liberality of the people of their congregations and to 
the public at large. 

Temperance. 

On motion of Rev. B. L. Agnew, a memorial to the 
General Assembly was unanimously adopted asking 
that " venerable body to give to the Church and the 
world a clear and unmistakable deliverance of our re- 
united Church concerning the admission to, or continu- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 47 

ance in, the communion of the Church of any person 
engaged in the manufacture or sale of intoxicating 
liquors as a beverage." 

May 15. Rev. W. W. Taylor's pastoral relation to 
Olivet Church, at his request, was dissolved. July 11. 
The installation of Rev. Dr. Harper April 3, 1871, over 
the IlTorth Broad Street Church was reported. Mr. 
Madison M. Long was received as a candidate for the 
ministry. Rev. T. J. Brown's pastoral relation to the 
Logan Square Church was, at his request, dissolved. 
The name of Rev. J. McCluskey, D.D., was entered on 
the roll of Presbytery. The death of E. H. Scott, a 
candidate, was announced. 

Sept. 4. A call from the Richmond Church was pre- 
sented to Mr. Henry J. Owen, a licentiate under the 
care of the Presbytery of West Chester. 

Notice of the Death of Rev. Jeremiah Miller. 

" Whereas, this Presbytery, since its last meeting, has 
heard of the death, on July 27, 1871, of Rev. Jeremiah 
Miller, therefore, 

'' JResolved, 1. That it is with profound sorrow we 
mourn the event that has called away from our midst 
a fellow-laborer in the kingdom of our Lord and Mas- 
ter, yet in this event we adore the goodness and grace 
of God that called our departed brother into the minis- 
try, and made that ministry successful in bringing 



48 HISTORY OF THE 

many precious souls to Christ, and in the building up 
of the church of God. 

" Resolved^ 2. That we cherish in delightful remem- 
brance his pleasant intercourse and consistent Christian 
character, endeavoring- to learn from this bereaving 
providence the lessons of wisdom Grod would teach us." 

Sept. 11. A call from Olivet Church was presented 
to Rev. Loyal Y. Graham, of the Presbytery of Redstone. 

Oct. 3. Rev. Peter Q. Wilson was received from the 
Presbytery of Syracuse. Mr. Robert Elliott was re- 
ceived as a candidate for the ministry. Oct. 9. Mr. H. 
J. Owen having accepted the call to Richmond Church, 
arrangements were made for his installation on the 16th 
inst. Oct. 16. Rev. Loyal Graham was received, and hav- 
ing accepted a call from Olivet Church, his installation 
was appointed for the 29th inst. 

1872. 

Feb. 5. Rev. Isaac A. Cornelison was received from the 
Presbytery of Peoria. Rev. Francis Hendricks accepted 
a call from the Second Mantua Church, and arrange- 
ments were made for his installation. April 2. Rev. 
Charles F. Thomas, of the M. E. Church, was received 
as a member of Presbytery. A call for the pastoral 
services of the Rev. Samuel A. Mutchmore, D.D., was 
presented from the Alexander Church. A call from 
the Logan Square Church to Rev. Isaac A. Cornelison 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 49 

was presented and accepted, and arrangements made for 
his installation. Eev. Alfred Paull resigned the charge 
of Hestonville Church. A committee was appointed to 
organize a church in the George Chandler Mission if 
the way be clear. This church was organized as the 
" George Chandler Mission Church" on Sabbath, April 
21, 1872. 

Temperance Again. 

April 29. The following resolution was unanimously 
adopted : — 

'' Resolved^ that this Presbytery, in hearty sympathy 
with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
in its emphatic deliverance against intemperance, with 
the judges of the courts in Philadelphia in their efforts 
to suppress unlicensed drinking places and the illegal 
sale of liquors on the Sabbath, and with all good citi- 
zens of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in their en- 
deavors to abate the evils of drunkenness, earnestly 
recommends to the members of its churches so to com- 
bine their influence as to restrain more effectually the 
liquor traffic, and as to secure, with God's blessing, the 
triumph of sobriety and religion." 

May 7. Dr. Mutchmore accepted the call from Alex- 
ander Church, his pastoral relation to the Cohocksink 
Church was dissolved, and arrangements were made for 
his installation on the third Sabbath of September. 



50 HISTORY OF THE 

July 2. Joseph. Whitefield Scroggs and John William 
Campbell were received as candidates for the ministry. 
Mr. D. K. Campbell accepted a call from the Heston- 
ville Church, and arrangements were made for his in- 
stallation. 

Oct. 1. Mr. William B. Reed was received as a can- 
didate for the ministry. 

Minute on Death of Dr. Saunders. 

"Eev. Ephraim D. Saunders, D.D., having departed 
this life on September 13, 1872, the Presbytery of Phila- 
delphia Central (with which the reverend gentleman 
has been connected since its organization) desire to 
place on record our highest appreciation of Dr. Saun- 
ders as a man and minister, and to express our profound 
gratitude to the Great Head of the Church for the 
various services to the cause of the Church and country 
which in his long and useful career he was enabled to 
perform. 

" As a pastor previous to his coming to our city, he 
was useful, exemplary, and diligent, and at least four 
church edifices were reared by his efforts to the glory 
of God. 

"As a patriot, his labors, in behalf of our country 
and city, were so well known and appreciated that to 
refer to them may be regarded as sufficient, especially 
as the gift of his only son and child to the cause of the 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 51 

country may be pointed to as a most conclusive proof 
of his devotion. 

"As an educator his success was marked, and his 
memory will be respectfully cherished by the young 
men who were trained under his care. 

"In the last days of our respected brother's life he was 
greatly blessed in that he was permitted, in conjunction 
with the Presbyterian Alliance, to lay the foundation 
of the most useful, popular, and excellent institution 
ever organized in connection with our Church in this 
city, namely, the Presbyterian Hospital. For the 
liquidation of the debt on those premises he has 
labored, during the last twelve months of his life, 
with great assiduity and such success that subscrip- 
tions to the amount of $92,000 have crowned the work. 

"In the fact of our dear brother being called away 
so suddenly, in the vigor of his manhood and midst of 
his usefulness, we recognize a summons to each of us 
to do what our hands find to do, as remembering the 
Divine Master's declaration, ' Blessed are they who 
when he cometh, he shall find so doing.' " 

Presbyterian Hospital. 

iN'ov. 4. It was resolved that all our Churches be and 
are hereby earnestly recommended to take up an annual 
collection on Thanksgiving day, or on any Sabbath as 



52 HISTORY OF THE 

near to that time as practicable, for the Presbyterian 
Hospital in Philadelphia. 

A call from the Hestonville Church for the pastoral 
services of Eev. Andrew McElwain was presented. 

1873. 

Jan. 7. A committee was appointed to prepare a 
minute in reference to the death of Rev. Alfred Paull. 
A call from the Cohocksink Church for the pastoral 
services of the Rev. William Greenough was presented. 

Feb. 10. Rev. Wm. Greenough was received from 
the Presbytery of Pittsburgh, and, having accepted the 
call to the Cohocksink Church, his installation was ap- 
pointed for Feb. 23. 

Minute on the Death of Rev. A. Paull. 

" The Rev. Alfred Paull having departed this life on 
!N'ovember , 1872, this Presbytery takes pleasure in 
placing upon record its emphatic testimony to the great 
worth and loveliness of his character as a Christian man 
and minister of our Lord Jesus. The chief feature in 
his personal character was that of gentleness, which was 
beautifully blended with true Christian humility and 
goodness. He was well qualified for the service of 
Christ in the ministry by mental ability and good 
scholarship, as also by a heart full of love for Christ 
and the souls of men. His preaching manifested a 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 53 

sincere interest in his hearers and an earnest desire to 
lead them to the Saviour and to advance them in holi- 
ness. He consecrated himself and his property to the 
Lord, and this Presbytery acknowledges that it and the 
church at large owe a debt of gratitude to him for the 
liberality he continually exercised. He was delicate in 
phj^sical constitution from the time of his first entrance 
upon the ministry, but it was his privilege to spend 
many useful years in his Lord's service, and, dying full 
of peace and joy, to leave behind him a lovely and 
bright example as a minister and a Christian for us 
both to admire and follow." 

April 1. E-ev. A. Poulson was received from the 
Presbytery of Fort Wayne, and Rev. W. J. Wright 
from the Presbytery of Athens. The "Presbyterian 
Home for Widows and Single Women in the State of 
Pennsylvania," was cordially and earnestly recom- 
mended to the most generous patronage of all good 
people. A call from the George Chandler Mission for 
the pastoral services of Pev. James A. Marshall was 
presented. Rev. Cochran Forbes was received from the 
Presbytery of Philadelphia. A committee was ap- 
pointed to meet on the evening of May 5, at Bethune 
Hall, and organize a church if the way be clear ; the 
church to be located at the corner of Broad and Dia- 
mond streets. The pastoral relation of the Rev. R. A. 
Brown to Trinity Church was, at his request, dissolved. 
(5) 



54 HISTORY OF THE 

It was recommended that some plan of systematic con- 
tribution, weekly or monthly, be adopted in all the 
churches of the Presbytery. 

April 15. A call for the pastoral services of Rev. M. 
JS'ewkirk was presented from the church organized at 
Broad and Diamond streets. Rev. Andrew McElwain 
accepted a call from Hestonville Church, and the last 
Sabbath of April was appointed for his installation. 

May 5. Mr. Newkirk accepted the call from the 
Broad and Diamond street Church ; installation fixed 
for June 1. Rev. J. A. Marshall was received from 
Presbytery of Pittsburgh, accepted the call from the 
George Chandler Mission Church, and arrangements 
were made for his installation. June 2. The pastoral 
relation of the Rev. Alexander Reed, D.D., to the Cen- 
tral Church was, at his request, dissolved, that he might 
take charge of the South Presbyterian Church, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. The Third Reformed Church of the city 
was, at its request, received into connection with Pres- 
bytery, and this church and the Western Church were 
united under the name of Immanuel Church. 

Sept. 1. Rev. Robert Graham was received from the 
Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, and 
Mr. Andrew Lees, a candidate for the ministry, was re- 
ceived from the Presbytery of San Francisco. Rev. 
Alfred H. Kellogg was received from the Presbytery of 
New York, and, having accepted a call to the Central 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 55 

Church, arrangements were made for his installation on 
the 15th Sept. 

Sept. 22. The pastoral relation of the Rev. J. L. 
Withrow, D.D., was dissolved that he might accept a 
call from the Second Presbyterian Church of Indian- 
apolis. E"ov. 10. Rev. Charles A. Smith, D.D., Rev. 
J. Ford Sutton, and Rev. B. B. Parsons were received 
as members of Presbytery. Arrangements were made 
for the installation of Dr. Parsons as pastor of Trinity 
Church. Dr. Wadsworth was received from the Classis 
of Philadelphia. Rev. W. B. Culliss, having accepted 
a call to the J^orth Tenth Street Church, December 30 
was appointed for his installation. 

1874. 

January 6. Rev. Mr, Hendricks' pastoral relation to 
the Second Mantua Church, at his request, was dis- 
solved. Feb. 2. Mr. Walter Q. Scott, a licentiate, was re- 
ceived from the Presbytery of Lehigh, and, having ac- 
cepted a call to the Arch Street Church, the 15th inst. 
was appointed for his ordination and installation. 

April 7. Mr. William B. Reed was licensed to preach 
the gospel and ordained. May 6. A call from 'Second 
Mantua Church for the pastoral services of Rev. J. M. 
Thompson was presented ; the call being accepted, he 
was installed May 7. 

July 7. Mr. Andrew Lees was licensed to preach the 



56 HISTORY OF THE 

gospel. Sept. 8. Mr. James K. Wilson was received 
as a licentiate from the Presbytery of Chicago. Oct. 6. 
The Eev. Joseph H. Kummer was received from the 
Moravian Church. The Rev. Alexander Sinclair was 
received from the Presbytery of Erie. The pastoral 
relation of Rev. A. H. Kellogg to the Central Church, 
at his request, was dissolved. The name of Kenderton 
Church was changed to Tioga Street Church on the roll 
of Presbytery. Mr. Harry A. Mackubbin was received 
as a candidate for the ministry. A committee was ap- 
pointed to organize a church in the neighborhood of 
Sixth Street and Lehigh Avenue, if the way be clear. 

l^ov, 10. Rev. Thomas L. Janeway, D.D., was re- 
ceived from the Presbytery of ^ew Brunswick, and 
Mr. David J. Waller, a licentiate from the Presbytery 
of Northumberland. A call from Logan Square 
Church for the pastoral services of Mr. D. J. Waller 
was presented and accepted. ISTov. 23. Mr. Waller was 
ordained and installed. I^ov. 30. The pastoral relation 
of Rev. W. B. Culliss to the l^orth Tenth Street Church 
was dissolved at his request. 

1875. Minutes of Sympathy. 

Jan. 5. Rev. W. R. Work w^as appointed to prepare 
a minute expressive of the sympathy of Presbytery with 
Rev. Dr. Wiswell in the death of his beloved wife. 
Rev. C. P. Diver was appointed to prepare a minute 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 57 

expressive of sympathy with Elder Alexander Willdin 
in the death of his only daughter. Feb. 2. The Rev. 
John H. Munro, having accepted a call to the Central 
Church, February 8 was appointed for his installation. 
Mr. Silas W. Gossler was received as a candidate for 
the ministry. 

April 6. The licensure of M. Wm. S. Steen, which 
expired at this meeting, was renewed. May 11. By a 
rising and unanimous vote Presbytery invited the Gen- 
eral Assembly of 1876 to meet in Philadelphia. Mr. 
Henry Brickley was received as a candidate for the 
ministry. July 6. The committee appointed to organize 
a church at Sixth Street and Lehigh Avenue reported 
the organization of said church. 

Oct. 5. A call from the Lehigh Avenue Church for 
the pastoral services of Rev. D. F. Lockerby was ac- 
cepted, and arrangements made for his installation on 
the 11th inst. Dec. 6. The pastoral relation of Rev. D. 
J. Waller, Jr., to the Logan Square Church, at his re- 
quest, was dissolved. 

1876. Minute on the Death of Rev. R. A. Brown. 

Adopted Jan. 4. 

"Whereas, it has pleased the great Head of the 
Church to call from his earthly labors, on ISTov. 21, 
1875, the Rev. Robert A. Brown, who was a member 
of this Presbytery, therefore, resolved : — 



58 HISTORY OF THE 

" 1. That we give glory to God for the divine grace 
which was magnified in the life and public ministry of 
our brother. 

" 2. That for strict conscientiousness, generous impulse, 
warm-hearted sympathy, untiring zeal and self-sacrifice 
for his Master's honor, it is believed that our departed 
brother had few superiors. His life was a happy ex- 
emplification of the principles which he professed, and 
an impressive commendation of the gospel which he 
preached. Possessing a constitution at no time vigor- 
ous, he was frequently disqualified for the work to 
which he had consecrated his life. Under the influence 
of disease his strength was gradually wasted until the 
Master bade him come up higher." 

Historical Discourses. 

It was resolved that, in accordance with the recom- 
mendation of the General Assembty, the pastors of the 
Presbytery would prepare a history of each of their 
churches, and, after the delivery of the discourses, would 
transmit them to the Presbyterian Historical Society 
for preservation. 

The Sabbath. 

In view of the desecration of the Lord's day as a 
great and growing evil, strong resolutions were adopted 
in favor of the proper observance of the Sabbath — the 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 59 

day which our fathers recognized and honored, and the 
observance of which thus far has contributed so largely 
to our national prosperity. 

Feb. 14. The Alexander Church was authorized to 
locate a mission in the neighborhood of Eighteenth 
Street and Montgomery Avenue. Feb. 28. Rev. D. F. 
Lockerby tendered his resignation as pastor of the 
Lehigh Avenue Church, and, at the next meeting of 
Presbytery, his pastoral relation was dissolved. March 
20. At the request of Rev. L. Y. Graham, the territory 
in the neighborhood, bounded on the south by Brown 
Street, and on the east by Twenty -fifth Street, was as- 
signed to Olivet Church as a mission field. 

April 4. A committee was appointed to consider 
what arrangements, if any, should be made for a public 
meeting or meetings for the purpose of rendering 
thanks for the large accessions to the churches of Pres- 
bytery during the year. Meetings were held in several 
churches. April 20. A call was presented from the 
ITorth Tenth Street Church for the ministerial services 
of Mr. Silas W. Gossler, which being accepted, April 
13 was appointed for his ordination and installation. 
Rev. D. F. Lockerby having given notice that he re- 
nounced the jurisdiction of Presbytery, at his request 
his name was stricken from the roll. Rev. D. A. Cun- 
ningham, D.D., asked leave to resign his pastoral 



60 HISTORY OF THE 

charge of Spring Garden Church, and his request was 
granted at a meeting on the 13th. 

May 15. Lehigh Avenue Church was dissolved. June 
22. Rev. Edwin H. IsTevin, D.D., was received from the 
Philadelphia classis of the German Reformed Church. 
A committee was appointed to organize a mission of 
the Cohocksink Church in the neighborhood of Elev- 
enth and Cumberland streets, if the way be clear. A 
resolution of grateful recognition of the refusal of the 
Centennial Exposition's Commission to open its gates 
on the Sabbath was unanimously adopted. Rev. James. 
Y. Mitchell's pastoral relation to Temple Church was 
dissolved, that he might accept a call to the Church of 
Lancaster, Pa. 

September 4. The committee appointed for the pur- 
pose reported the organization of a church on the terri- 
tory of the Gaston Mission, on June 26, 1876. Oct. 23. 
A call was presented from the Spring Garden Church 
for the pastoral services of the Rev. Joshua L. Russell 
of the Presbytery of Dayton. N^ov. 6. The committee 
on the proposed mission work among the Germans in 
the northwestern part of the city presented a report 
favorable to the enterprise. !N"ov. 20. Rev. Daniel 
Poor, D.D., was received from the Presbytery of San. 
Francisco. Rev. Henry J. Owen tendered his resigna- 
tion of the pastorate of the Richmond Church, on ac- 
count of enfeebled health, and his request was granted. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 61 

Eev. John H. Munro, pastor of the Central Church, 
asked leave for that church to remove from their pres- 
ent site to one selected on ISTorth Broad Street, between 
Fairmount Avenue and Brown Street, and the request 
was granted. Dec. 11. Eev. J. L. Eussell having ac- 
cepted the call from the Spring Garden Church, he was 
received into Presbytery, and arrangements were made 
for his installation on Dec. 21. Eev. J. M. Thompson 
asked permission on behalf of the Second Mantua 
Church to organize a mission Sabbath School in the 
neighborhood of Sixty-second and Yine streets, and 
permission was granted. 

1877. 

Jan. 2. The committee on the First German Church 
recommended the sale of the building of the First 
Church on Otter Street, and the purchase of a building on 
Corinthian Avenue, which was afterwards done. Feb. 
5. A petition was presented from certain persons in 
the neighborhood of Corinthian Avenue and Poplar 
Street asking for the organization of a Presbyterian 
church ; referred to a committee which afterwards re- 
commended such organization. March 5. A petition 
was presented from certain persons, residing in the 
vicinity of Seventeenth and Jefferson streets for the 
most part, asking to be organized into a Presbyterian 
church ; referred to a special committee. 



62 HISTORY OF THE 

April 3. The name of the Broad and Diamond Streets 
Church was ordered to be changed upon the roll to 
Bethlehem. Mr. Walter D. Mcholas was received as 
a licentiate from the Presbytery of ^N'ewark, and, hav- 
ing accepted a call from the Temple Church, arrange- 
ments were made for his installation. April 4. The 
thanks of Presbytery were tendered to Prof. E. C. 
Smith for his generous offer of a free scholarship for 
a young man studying for the ministry. 

Presbyterian Orphanage. 

Strong resolutions were adopted respecting a Presby- 
terian Orphanage in Philadelphia, and a committee 
of five elders appointed to confer with similar commit- 
tees from the Presbytery of Philadelphia and the 
Presbytery of Philadelphia ^orth, on the subject. 

April 16. A German church was reported as having 
been organized in the neighborhood of Corinthian 
Avenue and Poplar Street. April 9. Eev. Andrew 
Leeds had permission to proceed with the erection of 
a chapel in process of building at Twentieth and I^orris 
streets. May 10. A church was reported as having 
been organized in the neighborhood of Seventeenth and 
Jefferson streets. April 23. Mr. Charles Bransly and 
Mr. Nathaniel J. Rubinkam were licensed to preach 
the gospel. 

July 3. Rev. Thomas M. Watson was received from 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 63 

the U. P. Presbytery of Philadelphia. A call was pre- 
sented from the Church of the Covenant for the pastoral 
services of the Rev. Joseph R. Kerr of the Presbytery 
of ]^ew York. A petition was presented from sixty- 
five persons in the neighborhood of Sixth Street and 
Lehigh Avenue, asking for the organization of a church 
in the building formerly known as the Lehigh Avenue 
Presbyterian Church. Luigi de Jesi was received as a 
candidate for the ministry. 

General Council of the Presbyterian Church. 

The following resolution offered by Dr. Eva was 
adopted : — 

" Whereas, the first session of the General Council 
of the Presbyterian Church in the world is now being 
held in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland : — 

" Resolved, That we place on record this expression 
of our hearty sympathy with the objects of that body, 
and regard it as a privilege and duty to offer prayer to 
the great Head of the Church that the Holy Spirit may 
guide them in their deliberations to such results as may 
be for the glory of God and the best interests of the 
church of Christ in the world." 

Sept. 3. The call for Mr. Kerr from the Church of 
the Covenant was not laid before the Presbytery of ISTew 
York. 



64 HISTORY OF THE 

Sunday Papers. 

Oct. 2. Inasmuch as the General Assembly declares 
that any voluntary or responsible participation in the 
publication and sale of a Sunday newspaper is alike in- 
consistent with obedience to the law of God and with 
membership in the Presbyterian Church, and also that 
Presbytery may direct the session of any of its churches 
to discipline any member who is guilty of such an 
offence: Resolved^ That Presbytery earnestly counsels 
pastors and elders to conform to the above deliverance, 
and also urges members of all our churches to discoun- 
tenance and discourage all such publications by refusing 
to patronize them. 

A committee was appointed to organize a church at 
Lehigh Avenue and Sixth Street, if the way be clear. 
This was done Oct. 15, 1877. 

'^OY. 5. The Rev. Wm. C. Eommel was recei\^ed 
from the Presbytery of Montana. The Rev. McDuff 
Simpson was received from the Presbytery of Lexing- 
ton, and, having accepted a call from the Richmond 
Church, arrangements were made for his installation, 
E'ov. 21. Rev. W. C. Rommel was installed pastor of 
Gaston Church, 'Eov. 15. 

1878. 

Jan. 8. Rev. John B. Reeve, D.D., was heard in re- 
lation to the mission work commenced among the col- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 65 

ored people within the bounds of Presbytery, and leave 
was granted to continue that work. Feb. 4. Rev. 
Charles E. Burns was received from the Presbytery of 
ITewton, and, having accepted a call from the Lehigh 
Avenue Church, arrangements were made for his in- 
stallation. Rev. John Pichelson was received from 
the Presbytery of Morris and Orange, and, having ac- 
cepted a call from the Second German Church, arrange- 
ments were made for his installation on Feb. 19. 
March 4. Belmont Church was dissolved. 

Reception of Ministers and Licentiates from other 
Denominations. 

On this subject the following action was taken : — 
" Besolved, That when applications are made by minis- 
ters and licentiates of other denominations (Protestant) 
to be connected with the Presbyterian Church the Pres- 
bytery shall require all the qualifications both in regard 
to piety and learning "which are required of candidates 
for licensure or ordination of those who have originally 
belonged to the Presbyterian Church, and shall require 
the applicants from other denominations to continue 
their study and preparation until they are found on 
trial and examination to be qualified in* learning and 
ability to teach in the manner required by our stand- 
ards, but when found to be thus qualified it shall not 
be necessary to reordain the said applicants, but only to 



66 HISTORY OF THE 

install them when they are called to settle as pastors of 
churches. (See Moore's Digest, pp. 147-8.) 

" Every licentiate coming to this Presbytery from any 
corresponding ecclesiastical body shall be required to 
answer in the affirmative the constitutional questions 
directed by Chapter 14th of our Form of Government 
to be put to our own candidates before they are licensed, 
and in like manner any ordained minister of the gospel 
coming from any church in correspondence with the 
General Assembly by certificate of dismission and re- 
commendation shall be required to answer affirmatively 
the first seven questions directed by Chapter 15th of 
our Form of Government to be put to one of our own 
licentiates when about to be ordained to the sacred 
office." 

Sabbath Schools. 

The following resolutions were adopted April 2 : — 
"• Regarding, as we do, the Sabbath School as a 
strictly church institution for whose spiritual condition 
the church must be responsible; holding 'that the 
church in her organized capacity, through her ordained 
rulers and teachers, should explicitly assume the respon- 
sibility and oversight of the youth committed to her 
charge' (Acts xx. : 28), and that our Sabbath Schools 
should always be under the direction of the pastor 
and session, and that they should see to it that the 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 67 

catechisms constitute, in all cases, a part of the regular 
course of instruction, therefore — 

" Resolved^ that we urge upon our Sabbath Schools 
the recognition of these principles, and the various pre- 
cedents of the church bearing upon this subject, and the 
duty of sessions to supervise the instruction of the 
young, and wisely to regulate the appointment of teach- 
ers, the selection of library books and manuals of in- 
struction, the disbursement of collections, and whatever 
concerns the organization and general equipment of the 
school." 

The name of the First Mantua Church, by request, 
was changed to ]N"orthminster. 

Woman's Presbyterial Foreign Missionary Society. 

The following paper, ojftered by Dr. Henry, was 
adopted : — 

" Having heard of the formation of a Woman's 
Presbyterial Foreign Missionary Society within the 
bounds of this Presbytery, 

" Resolved^ That this society receives the full indorse- 
ment of this Presbytery, and is heartily commended to 
our churches for their co-operation and support. And 
the Presbytery would also heartily approve of the for- 
mation of woman's societies in aid of home missions of 
our church." 



68 HISTORY OF THE 

E,ev. John L. Withrow, D.D., was received from the 
Presbytery of Indianapolis. 

May 6. Rev. Charles F. Thonaas was received from the 
Presbytery of Chester. Mr. Armstrong, who was labor- 
ing among the colored people in the l!Torth western portion 
of the city within the bounds of Presbytery, was heard 
in reference to his work of gathering a Sabbath School 
of colored people, which promised to be very successful. 

Obituary Notice of Rev. H. J. O^^en. 

" Whereas^ our beloved friend and brother, Rev. 
Henry J. Owen, departed this life at Colorado Springs 
on Sabbath, March 31, 1878, Presbytery desires to 
spread this minute on our records in affectionate re- 
membrance of his brief, beautiful, and successful ca- 
reer. 

" Mr. Owen was the only son of Rev. Joseph Owen, 
D.D., who, according to Dr. A. A. Hodge, was the 
most learned of our foreign missionaries. Mr. Owen 
was born in Allahabad, India, in 1846. At the age of 
ten he was brought to this country for health and edu- 
cation, by his mother, whom he never saw again. He 
was, however, present with his father when he died on 
his way to this country, in Edinburgh, in 1869. He was 
educated in Princeton, Edinburgh, and Bonn, and was 
well versed in theological science and the ancient and 
modern languages, with ten of which he was more or 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 69 

less conversant. He was licensed by the Presbytery of 
West Chester, KY., in 1870, called to Eichmond Church 
ill 1871, and continued its pastor until the state of his 
health rendered his retirement necessary in 1876. Hav- 
ing received benefit from a residence in West Chester 
County, IST. Y., he undertook to serve the South Salem 
Church during the winter of 1876-7, and last spring 
repaired to Colorado, where he continued until his death. 
Mr. Owen's labors were many and successful. He fol- 
lowed closely ' Him who went about doing good,' and 
whose years of toil he so nearly approximated. During 
the ^YB and one-half years of his ministry 310 were re- 
ceived by him into the fellowship of the church, 250 
in Richmond Church, and 60 in South Salem. His 
labors for the material structure of the sanctuary fully 
equalled those put forth for the upbuilding of Christ's 
spiritual house, and it is the opinion of many that to 
these he fell a martyr. Therefore — 

" Besolved^ 1. That this Presbytery place on record our 
high appreciation of our departed brother's zeal, disin- 
terestedness, and efficiency as a minister of Christ's holy 
gospel. 

" 2. Our sense of the great loss which the church at 
large, and his brethren of this Presbytery especially, 
have sustained in his early removal from earth." 

June 3. The committee appointed to negotiate with 
Dr. W. M. Rice for the preparation of an historical in- 
(6) 



70 HISTORY OF THE 

dex of Presbytery reported that it was prepared and 
on the table of Presbytery. Mr. Luigi de Jesl was 
licensed to preach the gospel. The pastoral relation of 
Mr. Marshall to the George Chandler Church was, at 
his request, dissolved. 

Sept. 2. A petition was presented by certain persons 
in the neighborhood of I^ineteenth and Master streets 
(formerly connected with the Plymouth Congregational 
Church), asking Presbytery to organize them into a 
church to be located at the S. W. corner of IN'ineteenth 
and Master streets, whereupon a committee was ap- 
pointed to visit the field, make inquiry, and organize 
a church, if the way be clear. Mr. E. K. Donaldson 
was received as a candidate for the ministry. Sept. 11. 
Rev. Walter Q. Scott's pastoral relation to the Arch 
Street Church was, at his request, dissolved. 

Oct. 1. A church was reported as organized at Mne- 
teenth and Master streets. Rev. Edwin B. Raftens- 
perger was received from the Presbytery of Baltimore. 
Rev. Charles F. Thomas having accepted a call to the 
!N"orthwestern Church, arrangements were made for his 
installation on October 13. The request of the Rev. 
Charles E. Burns for a dissolution of his pastoral rela- 
tion to the Lehigh Avenue Church was granted. 

^ov. 4. Rev. Wm. B. Reed was received from the 
Presbytery of Chester. The First German Church was 
dissolved. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 71 

1879. 

Jan. 7. The George Chandler Church was dissolved. 
April 1. A committee was appointed to inquire into 
the expediency of procuring an act of incorporation of 
the Presbytery. Mr. Duffield Ashmead was received 
as a candidate for the ministry. 

Minute on the Death of Dr. Smith. 

June 2. " Whereas, it has pleased the Lord to re- 
move from us the Rev. Charles A, Smith, D.D., sud- 
denly, and in the midst of active and useful labors : 

" Resolved, That in this dispensation the Presbytery 
recognizes the loss of a much esteemed and well-beloved 
brother, who, by his long and varied services as a 
preacher, an author, and an editor, begun very early in 
life and continued until its late close in the several 
places where the Lord had appointed him, has rendered 
his memory precious to all who knew him. He was a 
fine scholar, a chaste writer, an earnest and reliable 
worker, modest in his manner, yet thoroughly inde- 
pendent in thought and action, and of unfeigned piety, 
a good pattern of what a minister ought to be." 

June 30. Rev. Elias B. Cleghorn was received from 
the Presbytery of Albany. Presbytery heard with 
great gratification the report of the Church Extension 
Committee concerning the Gloucester Colored Mission 



72 HISTORY OF THE 

on Fairmount Avenue, and commended the Mission to 
the best wishes and kindly recognition of all its mem- 
bers. 

Sept. 1. It was unanimously " Hesolved, that Presby- 
tery has heard with sorrow of the bereavement which 
has been visited upon our brother, the Rev. B. L. 
Agnew, D.D., and his family in the death of a beloved 
son, and we hereby tender to them the assurance of our 
sincere sympathy in this great affliction, and our prayers 
for their support and consolation." 

Oct. 7. Rev. Joseph S. Malone was received from the 
Reformed Episcopal Church. The pastoral relation of 
Rev. Charles F. Thomas to the Northwestern Church 
was, at his own request, and on account of shattered 
health, dissolved. Rev. A. Y. C. Schenck's pastoral 
relation to Kenderton Church was, at his request, dis- 
solved. 

Presbyterian Hospital. 

Presbytery resolved to recommend to all the churches 
under its care to take a collection for the benefit of the 
Hospital, and that the Sabbath immediately preceding 
the day of annual Thanksgiving be designated as the 
day " Hospital Sunday," on which the collection should 
be made. 

ISTov. 3. A call from the Northwestern Church for 
the pastoral services of the Rev. Joseph S. Malone was 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 73 

presented to Presbytery. E-ev. Edwin D. INTewberry 
was received from the Presbytery of West Jersey. 
Presbytery heard with much pleasure the proposal of 
the pastor of the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church 
to assist the mission at Haddington in money and 
workers, and cordially invited the said Walnut Street 
Church to co-operate with Rev. Clement C. Dickey in 
this field, in connection with its own committee on 
Church Extension. Rev. Mr. Malone accepted the call 
to the E'orth western Church, and his installation was 
appointed for the 14th instant. 

Dec. 1. The Second German Church having procured 
a change of its corporate name to that of " Corinthian 
Avenue Presbyterian Church," it was directed that the 
latter name be substituted for the former upon the roll 
of Presbytery. 

1880. 

Jan. 6. Rev. Matthew Anderson, of the Presbytery 
of Carlisle, being present, w^as invited to sit as a corre- 
sponding member. The enterprise of the Gloucester 
Mission among the colored people on Fairmount 
Avenue was taken under the care of Presbytery, and 
a committee appointed to investigate its interests. 
March 1. A committee was appointed to visit the 
mission field at Haddington, and organize a church if 
the way be clear. The report of a committee appointed 



74 HISTORY OF THE 

to examine a location in 'New Street, for a new church, 
stated that they had purchased the Lutheran Church 
huilding on New Street east of Fourth, and recom- 
mended the calling of the Rev. Herman C. Gruhnert as 
a suitable missionary for the field. The report was 
adopted. 

Obituary Minute of Rev. Dr. John McCluskey. 

" Whereas, it has pleased God to take from us the 
venerated and beloved brother whose name stands at 
the head of the roll of our Presbytery : therefore 

" Resolved, 1. That we recognize in his removal from 
us the hand of the great Head of the Church, who, 
though he takes away his faithful servants from their 
earthly place of labor, bestows upon them an abundant 
entrance into his heavenly kingdom, and gives them a 
crown of life. 

^' Hesolved, 2. That we rejoice that so early in life 
God bestowed his grace upon our brother, and that he 
called into the gospel ministry one so gifted, and in 
various ways so peculiarly fitted to fulfil the duties of 
this high ofiice ; and that he permitted him for more 
than fifty years, with such great success, to preach the 
gospel of Christ, and to co-operate with his brethren in 
all the evangelistic and educational work of our beloved 
Church with such constancy and fidelity. 

'' Besolved, 3. That we render thanks to the great 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 7D 

Head of the Church who qualified our brother for his 
wonderful service in the Christian ministry, and who 
blessed his influence upon the minds and hearts of young 
men, that he became instrumental in leading into this 
sacred office so many who have been faithful laborers 
in this land and in foreign lands. 

" Resolved^ 4. That his memory will be held in affec- 
tionate remembrance by all his brethren in the min- 
istry who knew him and loved him, and we feel that 
his life ought to have the influence of recommending 
the religion that he professed and the Saviour whom he 
so faithfully served, to all, especially to those who are 
beginning life, so that, like our friend, they may be 
useful in life and blessed in death." 

The committee appointed to organize a church at 
Haddington, if the way be clear, reported that a church 
had been organized on April 5. 

May 3. A call from the Arch Street Church for the 
pastoral services of Eev. John S. Sands was presented. 
Rev. Matthew Anderson was received from the Presby- 
tery of Carlisle. A committee was appointed to or- 
ganize a church at Grloucester Mission, if the way be 
clear. By request of the committee on the ^qw Street 
Church, the name of Rev. Henry "Weber was substituted 
for that of Rev. H. C. Gruhnert, as the missionary to be 
commissioned by the Board of Home Missions, as Mr.* 
Gruhnert had declined the call. The Committee on 



76 HISTORY OF THE 

Church Extension was authorized to organize a church 
at Eighteenth and Montgomery Avenue, if the way be 
clear. May 10. Rev. C. C. Dickey was received from 
the Presbytery of Chester, and, accepting a call from 
the Sixty-third Street Church, the 17th instant was ap- 
pointed for his installation. 

June 7. The committee for the organization of a 
church on ^ew Street, near Fourth, was instructed to 
organize the church, if the way be clear. Mr. George 
A. Paul was received as a candidate for the ministry. 
June 28. The committee on G-loucester Mission reported 
that a church was organized there on June 10. The 
Rev. David C. Meeker was received from the Presby- 
tery of Carlisle. The pastoral relation of Rev. Walter 
D. Nicholas to the Temple Church, at his request, was 
dissolved. The committee on the organization of a 
church on E"ew Street, near Fourth, reported that a 
church was organized on June 14, to be called Carrael 
Church. Rev. Matthew Anderson accepted a call from 
the Berean Church, and July 11 was appointed for his 
installation. Mr. Duffield Ashmead and Mr. E. K. 
Donaldson were licensed to preach the gospel. 

Sept. 6. Rev. Henry Weber and Rev. E. P. Heberton 
were received on certificates, as members of Presby- 
tery. Mr. Sands having accepted the call to Arch 
Street Church, arrangements were made for his in- 
stallation. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 77 

Oct. 5. Rev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., by a written 
request, was dismissed to the Congregational Associa- 
tion of Boston. The pastoral relation of Rev. A. A. 
Willitts, D.D., to the West Arch Street Church, and 
that of the Rev. Andrew McElwain to the Hestonville 
Church, were, at their own request, dissolved. Sabbath, 
October 17, was appointed for the ordination of licenti- 
ate Luigi de Jesi. 17. Rev. McDuff Simpson's pastoral 
relation to the Richmond Church, at his request, was 
dissolved. Rev. R. D. Harper, D.D., on behalf of the 
JTorth Broad Street Church, asked the permission of 
Presbytery to establish a Mission Sabbath School in 
Penn Village, in the northwestern part of Presbytery's 
bounds, and the request was referred to the Committee 
on Church Extension. 

Minute on the Death of the Rev. S. W. Gossler. 

" The Presbytery of Philadelphia Central having 
heard with deep regret of the death of one of its mem- 
bers. Rev. Silas W. Gossler, pastor of the E'orth Tenth 
Street Presbyterian Church, on the 29th day of October, 
1880, in the twenty-eighth year of his age, adopts the 
following paper and directs the Stated Clerk to send 
copies of the same to the family and congregation of 
the deceased : 

"Whilst in our human sympathies we cannot but^ 
mourn the loss of a beloved brother, we rejoice that we 



78 HISTORY OF THE 

can conscientiously record our gratitude to God for the 
great and good work he enabled him to accomplish 
during the few years he was pastor of the E"orth Tenth 
Street Presbyterian Church of this city. 

" Brother Gossler won our esteem in the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia Central by the satisfactory examination 
he passed before our body when he appeared for 
licensure, and he intensified that feeling by his con- 
sistent walk and conversation, his studious habits, and 
the careful manner in which he attended to all his 
ecclesiastical duties: and he also won our love as a 
Christian brother by his uniformly courteous manners, 
kindly words, social disposition, and his devotion to 
the holy work to which he had devoted his life. 

a i^Q rejoice that during the few years he was per- 
mitted to labor in our midst he was instrumental in 
leading so many precious souls into the kingdom of 
God : that he gathered around him so many willing 
workers in the field where he labored, and was enabled 
to place the Church of which he was pastor in a con- 
dition of so great prosperity and usefulness." 

A call was presented from the Richmond Church for 
the pastoral services of Rev. G. H. S. Campbell. Dr. 
Agnew, of the committee to organize a church at Mont- 
gomery Avenue and Eighteenth Street, reported that 
the church was organized in the Free Collegiate 
Chapel, Oct. 31, 1880. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 79 

Dec. 6. Rev. J. Gr. Shinn and Eev. George H. S. 
Campbell were received on certificate. • Mr. Campbell 
having accepted a call to Eichmond Church, arrange- 
ments were made for his installation on the 16th inst. 
A call from the Montgomery Avenue Church for the 
pastoral services of the Eev. S. A. Mutchmore was pre- 
sented. 

1881. 
Obituary Minute of Rev. C. Forbes. 

" With submission to the will of Divine Providence, 
Presbytery hereby records the decease of Pev. Cochran 
Forbes, one of its oldest and most highly esteemed 
members, and one whose many excellencies of character 
won the confidence and regard of his Christian brethren 
in the highest degree. 

" Brother Forbes closed his long and useful life, after 
a very brief illness, at his home in West Philadelphia, 
Nov. 5, 1880, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, and 
in the fiftieth year of his ministry, having entered the 
Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., in 1828, and 
graduating in 1831* He was shortly after ordained to 
the gospel ministry by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, 
and accepting an appointment by the A. B. C. F. M. as 
missionary to the Sandwich Islands, he, with his young 
wife, in company with several co-laborers, sailed for 



80 HISTORY OF THE 

their destination from ^N'ew Bedford, Mass., Kov. 26, 
1831, and arrived at Honolulu in May, 1832. 

" Mr. Forbes and his wife were assigned to Kaawaloa 
as their field of labor. After seventeen years of un- 
remitting and exhausting missionary work in the island 
of Hawaii, the declining health of Mrs. Forbes com- 
pelled our brother to return to this country in 1849. 
For several years thereafter he was actively and success- 
fully engaged in pastoral work in Eastern and Central 
Pennsylvania, and in Indiana — never shrinking from 
entering upon a field of labor because of the difficulties 
to be encountered, or the self-denials demanded. Dur- 
ing the last eight years, and up to the day of his fatal 
illness, he was Chaplain of the Presbyterian Hospital, 
a field of usefulness for which his genial disposition, 
his gentle bearing, and his early training as a mission- 
ary, adapted him in an eminent degree. In every 
sphere of labor in which he engaged, whether as mis- 
sionary, pastor, or chaplain, his record is that of one 
who ' magnified his office' as a servant of Christ. 

"Brother Forbes had acquired an unusual familiarity 
with the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures. They were 
his daily study and delight. His preaching was thor- 
oughly Scriptural and expository, and his daily walk a 
beautiful exemplification of his own teaching. 

" After the death of his excellent wife, which occurred 
about three years ago, a longing desire to return to the 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 81 

scenes and associations of his early ministry seemed to 
take full -possession of his thoughts. To this natural 
desire were added the attractions of a home in the 
family of his eldest son, now a pastor in the island of 
Hawaii. In the providence of God and through the 
generosity of the Trustees of the Hospital, his desire in 
this respect seemed about to be gratified. All the 
needful preparations for the long-wished for journey 
had been completed. But the Master whom he served 
so long had decreed otherwise. 

" While, then, we sorrow because of the removal from 
our counsels and associations of one so honored and 
esteemed among us, we do, with the greatest pleasure 
and sincerity, bear our testimony to his character, as a 
Chi:istian gentleman, a true friend, and a devoted min- 
ister of Christ." 

A call from the Kenderton Church for the pastoral 
services of Eev. E. P. Heberton was presented, and 
placed in his hands. Kev. Dr. Wiswell, on behalf of 
the Green Hill Church, requested permission to estab- 
lish a Mission Sunday-School in the neighborhood of 
Twenty-seventh and Oxford streets, and the request was 
referred to the Committee on Church Extension. The 
pastoral relation of Rev. Dr. Mutchmore to Alexander 
Church was dissolved, in order to his translation to the 
Montgomery Avenue Church in accordance with their 
call. 



82 HISTORY OF THE 

Feb. 7. Rev. H. D. ISTorthrop was received from the 
Presbytery of New York, Rev. E. P. Heberton an- 
nounced his acceptance of the call from the Kenderton 
Ghurch. He was installed March 15. A call was pre- 
sented from the ISTorth Tenth Street Church for the 
pastoral services of Rev. H. D. !N"orthrop, and, being 
accepted, Feb. 23 was appointed for his installation. 
A call from the Temple Church for the pastoral services 
of the Rev. W. D, Roberts was presented. 

March 7. Rev. W. D. Roberts was received, and, hav- 
ing announced his acceptance of the call from the Temple 
Church, March 15 was appointed for his installation. 
Rev. J. Henry Sharpe was received from the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia, and, having accepted a call to Heston- 
ville Church, his installation was appointed to take 
place on April 1. Presbytery recorded its gratitude 
to God for the success of the church enterprise at Mont- 
gomery Avenue and Eighteenth Street, and requested 
the pastor, Rev. S. A. Mutchmore, D.D., by whose 
direction the work had been accomplished, to prepare 
a history of the enterprise and the manner of its pro- 
gress. It was resolved to ordain Mr. Edward K. 
Donaldson on the 17th inst. 

Minute on the Death of Rev. David C. Meeker. 

" April 5. The Rev. D. C. Meeker was born in the city 
of E'ewark, K J., Feb. 21, 1819, and died in this city 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 83 

Feb. 18, 1881, aged sixty- two. He entered the Uni- 
versity of the City of l^ew York in the fall of 1839, 
while the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen was Chancellor. 
He was honored by having assigned to him the Latin 
Salutatory of the class graduating in 1843. He spent 
three years in the Union Theological Seminary in E^ew 
York. Among his classmates were Rev. Drs. Wm. P. 
Breed, of this city, and L. D. Potter, of Glendale, Ohio. 
He was licensed by the Presbytery of I^ewark in 1846. 
The first few years were spent preaching in Plymouth 
and Lima, Indiana, after which he was pastor of the 
church in Fairton, Cumberland County, E^. J., five 
years. For eight years he was pastor of a church in 
Wallace, Chester County, Pa. His last charge was in 
Dauphin, Pa., where he labored eleven years. Giving 
up the charge of this church in the spring of 1880, he 
removed to the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. Andrew 
Graydon of this city. Here in enfeebled health he 
spent the last year of his life, waiting the will of his 
Master who had laid him aside from the active duties 
of a minister. 

" Taken seriously ill on the 9th of February, he lingered 
until the evening of the 18th, when he quietly passed 
from earth into the presence of the Lord. His remains 
were taken to the Cemetery connected with the ' Old 
Stone Church' in Fairfield Township, E". J. Appro- 



84 HISTORY OF THE 

priate services were held in the church at Fairton where 
he once was pastor." 

An application from the Fifth Reformed Presby- 
terian Church to be received by Presbytery and en- 
rolled as the York Street Presbyterian Church, was 
received. Rev. H. J. Weber accepted a call from Car- 
mel Church, and April 28th was appointed for his 
installation. Resolutions strongly commendatory of 
the Presbyterian Historical Society were adopted. 
Rev. Dr. Parsons requested the dissolution of his 
pastoral relation to Trinity Church. Mr. Edward 
McElwain Haymaker was received as a candidate for 
the ministry. 

May 2. Mr. Melancthon W. Jacobus was received 
as a candidate for the ministry. The pastoral relation 
of Rev. B. B. Parsons, D.D., to Trinity Church was 
dissolved. The Church of the Covenant was dissolved. 
The Church Extension Committee were directed to 
organize a church at Cedar and Cumberland Streets, if 
the way be clear. 

June 6. The Rev. T. J. Shepherd, D.D., under the 
conviction that he could not without serious risk to 
health and life bear the burdens of his pastoral office, 
asked leave to resign the pastorate of the First Church 
of Northern Liberties, and his request was granted. 
Rev. A. G. McCauley, D.D., and the Fifth Reformed 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 85 

Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, were, at their 
request, received under the care of Presbytery, and 
the church enrolled as the York Street Presbyterian 
Church. It was ordered, in accordance with a request 
made, that the name of the church of Hestonville be 
changed to West Park Presbyterian Church. The 
Committee on Church Extension was instructed to 
organize, if the way be clear, a church on Cumberland 
Street, to be called the Cumberland Street Presbyterian 
Church. June 28. Mr. M. W. Jacobus was licensed to 
preach the gospel. At the request of the church at 
Montgomery Avenue and Eighteenth Street, it was 
ordered that the church be enrolled as the Memorial 
Presbyterian Church. 

August 13. Pev. J. M. Thompson requested and 
obtained leave to resign his pastoral charge of the 
Mantua Second Church. Oct. 4. Cumberland Street 
Church was reported as organized according to the 
direction of Presbytery. 

1882. 

Jan. 10. Rev. Marcus A. Brownson, a licentiate, 

was received from the Presbytery of Washington. A 

call from Cumberland Street Church for the pastoral 

services of Pev. James H. Marr was presented Feb. 6. 

(7) 



86 • HISTORY OF THE 

Obituary Notice of Rev. E. B. Cleghorn. 

" Rev. Elisha B. Cleghorn, a member of the Presby- 
tery of Philadelphia Central, departed this life in 
Philadelphia, Dec. 14, 1881, after a brief illness. 

" Brother Cleghorn was born in De Kalb, in the State 
of ]^ew York, Sept. 27, 1812. After an active busi- 
ness career he determined to enter the ministry, studied 
theology in Princeton Theological Seminary, and was 
ordained by the Presbytery of Baltimore, June 3, 1856. 
He was a diligent and earnest servant of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, as pastor, city missionary, and evangelist. 
Though but a short time a member of this Presbytery, 
Brother Cleghorn commended himself to his brethren 
by his pleasant and affable manner, sincere and earnest 
sp)irit, and consistent life." 

" The Presbytery would hereby record its sorrow over 
the loss of a faithful presbyter and devoted minister of 
the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and 
would lay to heart this solemn admonition of the Mas- 
ter, to be faithful and diligent in our calling while our 
day lasts, mindful that the night cometh when no man 
can work." 

The Eev. Andrew Lees, having accepted a call from 
Trinity Church, Monday 20th inst., was appointed for 
his installation. 

March 6. Rev. Wm. V. Louderbough was received 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 87 

from the Presbytery of !N"ew Castle, accepted a call from 
the ]!Torthern Liberties First Church, and his installa- 
tion appointed for March 14. 

April 4. Rev. J. W. Bain was received from the 
First United Presbyterian Presbytery of Ohio, and ac- 
cepted a call to Alexander Church, to be installed 
April 11. The pastoral relation of Eev. J. S. Malone 
to the ^N'orthwestern Church was, at his request, dis- 
solved. Kev. Eichard T. Jones, a licentiate, was re- 
ceived from the Presbytery of I:Torthern Pennsylvania, 
of the Welsh Presbyterian Church. 

May 1. Rev. Francis M. Baker was received from 
the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical 
Association. Mr. James Stuart Dickson was received 
as a candidate for the ministry. The committee to or- 
ganize a church on Twenty-eighth Street, near Girard 
Avenue, reported that such church was organized April 
13, under the name of " Zion German Presbyterian 
Church of Philadelphia." Mr. Jacob W. Loch, having 
accepted a call to this Church, May 11 was appointed 
for his installation. June 3. Rev. H. Augustus Smith, 
D.D., asked and obtained leave, on account of ill health, 
to resign the pastoral charge of IsTorthminster Church. 
Mr. R. T. Jones accepted a call to the Lehigh Avenue 
Church, to be installed June 8. The Fairmount and 
Columbia Avenue Churches were, at their own request, 
united under the name of the Columbia Avenue Fair- 



88 HISTORY OF THE 

mount Presbyterian Church. Mr. George B. Paull was 
licensed to preach the gospel. The Lehigh Avenue 
Church received permission to locate their church at 
the corner of Susquehanna Avenue and Marshall Street. 
June 26. Rev. Wm. S. Thompson was received from 
the Presbytery of Portsmouth. 

Minute on the Death of Rev. Dr. Musgrave. 
Adopted Oct. 3. 

" Died, on Thursday afternoon, August 24, 1882, at 
his residence, ^N'o. 40 i^orth Eleventh Street, Philadel- 
phia, Rev. George W. Musgrave, D.D., LL.D., in the 
seventy-eighth jesiY of his age. 

" It is with unfeigned sorrow we place this record upon 
our Minutes, and drop this father's name from our roll. 

"As a man, he was strong and healthful in body, clear 
and vigorous in intellect, ardent and sympathetic in 
soul, true in his friendships, abundant in hospitality, 
dignified in his manners, and genial in his intercourse 
with his fellow- men. 

"As a Christian, he was thorough in his convictions, 
unquestioning in his faith, entire in his consecration, 
liberal in the use of means, patient in his sufferings, 
submissive to the will of God, generally reticent as to 
his religious experience, and hopeful and peaceful in 
his death. 

"As a minister, he w^as systematic in his w^ork, diligent 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 89 

in his preparations for the pulpit, strongly Calvinistic 
in his creed, liberal in his views, evangelical in his ut- 
terances, faithful and hearty in the declaration of truth, 
bold in the denunciation of sin, zealous for the house 
of his Master, anxious for the salvation of souls, and 
much in prayer. 

"As a presbyter^ he was faithful in his attendance upon 
the meetings of Church Courts, prompt in the discharge 
of his presbyterial duties, prudent in counsel, powerful 
in debate, well versed in ecclesiastical history and law, 
a leader of others, and devoted to peace, purity, and 
prosperity of the Presbyterian Church. 

"As a man, as a Christian, as a minister, and as a 
presbyter, we knew and will miss him, and sorrow be- 
cause we shall see his face no more. We will cherish 
his memory, and seek to follow him as he followed 
Christ. 

" We are glad that we were able to gratify the desire 
of his old age, and send him not long ago to represent 
us in the General Assembly, and at the same time to 
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance 
in that body. 

" He has gone now, at the will of the Master he served 
so long and so faithfully, to the ' General Assembly, and 
Church of the first-born which are written in heaven.' 
We will miss him, but we bow and say, * Thy will, 
God, be done,' and while we wonder who will be the 



90 HISTORY OF THE 

next to go, we pray that we all may be found ready — 
waiting and watching for the call of the Lord." 

The pastoral relation of the Eev. E. P. Heberton to 
the Kenderton Church, at his request, was dissolved. 
A committee was appointed to arrange for the installa- 
tion of Dr. Mutchmore as pastor of Memorial Church. 

^ov. 6. The pastoral relation of the Eev. B. L. 
Agnew, D.D., to the ITorth Church, was, at his request, 
dissolved, and he was granted a letter of dismission to 
the Presbytery of Pittsburgh. The pastoral relation of 
the Eev. J. L. Eussell to the Spring Garden Street 
Church was, at his request, dissolved ; also that of Eev. 
J. M. Thompson to the Mantua Second Church, at his 
request. Mr. Otto Klose was received as a candidate 
for the ministry. 

Dec. 4. Eev. Mangasar Mangasarian accepted a call 
from the Spring Garden Church. Mr. Charles A. 
Schmidt and Mr. Carl Theodore Albrecht were received 
as candidates for the ministry. 

1883. 
Minute on the Death of Rev. W. R. Work. 

Adopted Jan. 9. 

"With feelings of deep sorrow this Presbytery 
notices the decease of Eev. William E. Work, a mem- 
ber of this body, who departed this life December 28, 
1882, in the seventy-third year of his age. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 91 

" Mr. "Work graduated at Washington College, Pa., in 
1834. His theological studies were pursued in Alle- 
gheny and Princeton Theological Seminaries. He was 
licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle, Del., in 1840. 
After a settlement there of several years he began the 
work of founding a seminary for young ladies in Potts- 
town, Pa., of which he was the Principal. This semi- 
nary became firmly established and is still in a prosper- 
ous condition. From thence he came to Philadelphia, 
where he organized the Presbyterian Church, corner of 
Frankford Eoad and Cambria Street. A church was 
built and is now in successful operation under the pas- 
torate of Rev. Andrew Lees. Since then he has been 
engaged in various services for the good of the church 
and welfare of mankind: at one time in behalf of 
Lincoln University, Pa., and afterwards for Howard 
University, Washington, D. C, he acted as financial 
agent. His last special work was the revision of 
Wheeler's Analysis of the Bible. This he had repub- 
lished, in which he has afforded great aid to the teach- 
ers in our Sabbath Schools. For the last year his fail- 
ure in bodily health and strength was very perceptible. 
An opportunity was kindly given him to derive the 
benefit and advantages of our Presbyterian Hospital. 
Here, and along with the assiduous attention of an 
affectionate daughter, he remained several weeks. 
While there he received the kind ministrations of his 



92 HISTORY OF THE 

friends and brethren in the ministry. Here he closed 
his earthlv labors, and is now with the Master he loved 
and served. The Princeton Presbyterian Church was 
kindly offered for the religious services connected with 
his burial. Here were gathered a large number of his 
brethren in the ministry with many sympathizing 
friends to pay their last tribute of respect to his 
memory. 

" Mr. Work will long be remembered as a faithful 
and efficient member of this Presbytery. His wise 
judgment on all ecclesiastical questions was well known. 
Modest and unobtrusive in all his demeanor he won the 
highest regard from all associated with him. His 
genial and pleasant address will not be forgotten by the 
members of this body and at the weekly gathering of 
his brethren in the ministry. 

" Be it ours to gather the lessons that God's providence 
is teaching us, and may we all be found faithful to our 
trust, and when the Master calls may we be ready and 
receive from Him the plaudit, ' Well done, good and 
faithful servant.' " 

At the request of the Cumberland Street Church its 
name was changed to " Chandler Memorial Presbyte- 
rian Church." Rev. John Hemphill was received from 
the Presbytery of San Francisco, and, having accepted 
a call to the West Arch Street Church, a committee 
was appointed to make arrangements for his installation 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 98 

on Feb. 15. Mr. Thomas Yerner Moore was received 
as a candidate for the ministry, examined and licensed. 
March 5. Rev. M. L. Ross was received from the 
Presbytery of ]^orthumberland. A call was presented 
from the Mantua Second Church for the pastoral ser- 
vices of Rev. S. A. Harlow. Rev. James H. Marr 
announced his acceptance of the call from Chandler 
Memorial Church, and arrangements made for his in- 
stallation. April 3. Rev. John McElmoyle was re- 
ceived from the Presbytery of Westminster. 

Obituary Notice of Rev. H. A. Smith, D.D. 

" In the death of Rev. Henry Augustus Smith, D.D., 
for several years pastor of the ISTorthminster Church, 
this Presbytery recognizes the sovereign will of Him 
who in the mystery of his dispensations has removed 
from our midst within a brief period four of our fellow- 
members. 

" We desire to record it as our appreciation of Dr. 
Smith that in the discharge of his duties both in the 
committees on which he served, and in the general 
deliberations of this body, he was ever a thoughtful, 
wise, and weighty counsellor, whose services were most 
highly esteemed. 

"We also desire to express our sense of loss to the 
Church at large of one who was an able, broad, and 



94 HISTORY OF THE 

richly furnished, as well as spiritual and consecrated, 
minister of the Church. 

"In our reluctant assent to the dissolution of his 
pastoral relation it was with the hope cherished by him 
and his Church that a season of rest would be attended 
with restoration to health and to the active labors of 
the ministry of grace. Since the great Head of the 
Church has ordered otherwise, we reverently bow to 
the will of Him who never errs. 

" We would also express our personal sense of grief 
and regret that we shall be deprived of the gracious 
presence and fraternal intercourse of our beloved 
brother, sorrowing most of all that we shall see his 
face no more in the courts of the church." 

E-ev. Andrew Lees asked and obtained leave to resign 
his pastoral charge, with the view of removing to a 
more congenial climate. 

Obituary Notice of Rev. "W. O. Johnstone, D.D. 

"TFAereas, it has pleased our Master, the Head of 
the Church, to call to Himself our beloved brother and 
fellow-presbyter. Rev. William 0. Johnstone, D.D., thus 
closing his services as a minister and presbyter, and 
severing the loving fellowship and agreeable relations 
subsisting between himself and us, as co-laborers and 
rulers in the Church militant ; and, 

" Whereas^ in his long connection with this Presby- 



PRESBYTERY OF PDILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 95 

terj he has ever maintained an honored place in our 
midst, discharging every duty incumbent upon him 
fearlessly and with fidelity, and in his walk and con- 
versation ever bearing himself with that dignity, zeal, 
and faithfulness becoming the commissioned ambassa- 
dor of King Jesus ; and, 

" Whereas, in his relation with us, by his warm heart, 
genial manner, manly bearing, always quick to speak, 
a ready debater, fearless in his utterances, and valiant 
in his defence of truth as known and promulgated by 
the Presbyterian Church, he endeared himself to us all, 
and secured himself a place within the very citadel of 
our hearts' warmest friendship ; and, 

" Whersas, we recognize in the soundness and perfec- 
tion of his blameless Christian life, and the fulness and 
completeness of his ministerial life and labors, the 
Church at large has sustained a severe loss, therefore 

Resolved, that we his co-Presbyters, while recognizing 
that our King and loving Head doeth all things well — 
and while bowing with Christian submission to His will, 
we express our profound personal sorrow over our per- 
sonal loss in the removal of our friend, and over the loss 
of this Presbytery in the removal of a faithful, zealous 
member, and the loss of the Church of God in the 
death of an honored minister." 

May 7. Eev. S. M. Gould, of the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia IsTorth ; Eev. S. A. Harlow, of the Pres- 



96 HISTORY OF THE 

bjtery of Brooklyn, and Rev. George Van Deurs, of 
the Presbytery of iTew York, were received on certifi- 
cate. Mr. Harlow having accepted the call from the 
Mantua Second Church, his installation was appointed 
for the 17th inst. A call was presented from I^Torth- 
minster Church for the pastoral services of Eev. Robert 
H. Fulton. 

June 4. Mr. Fulton was received from the Presby- 
tery of Baltimore, and, having accepted the call from 
E'orthminster Church, his installation was appointed 
for Jnne 12. Rev. F. L. Robbins asked and obtained 
leave to resign the pastoral charge of the Oxford 
Church. The Rev. J. S. Dickson was licensed to preach 
the gospel June 25. Mr. Carl J. Albrecht was licensed 
to preach the gospel. A call for the pastoral services 
of the Rev. Robert Hunter was presented from the 
Kensington Church. The ISTorthwestern Church was 
dissolved. 

Sept. 3. A call was presented from the Kenderton 
Church for the pastoral services of Rev, J. McElmoyle ; 
the call was accepted, and the installation appointed for 
the 20th inst. Rev. Robert Hunter was received from 
the Reformed Presbytery of Philadelphia, accepted the 
call from the Kensington Church, and was installed 
September 13. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 97 

Obituary Notice of Rev. E. P. Heberton. 

" In the death of Eev. Edward P. Heberton, a mem- 
ber of this Presbytery, and recently pastor of one of our 
churches, and who was about to be translated to another 
field of labor where there was the prospect of further 
and more extended usefulness, we desire to bow rever- 
ently to the inscrutable sovereignty of the Great Head 
of the Church who has so suddenly, and within so short 
a time, called away another beloved brother and fellow- 
laborer in the gospel. 

" In the assiduous use of his fine gifts by voice 
and pen through the whole period of his ministry in 
the gospel, wherein he followed in the footsteps of his 
honored and venerated father, whom nevertheless he 
so unexpectedly preceded to the Heavenly Mansions, 
our beloved brother leaves many to mourn him in his 
various fields of labor, who were personally indebted, 
by his earnest, faithful, and affectionate presentation of 
gospel truth and grace. 

" Remembering that this sad and sudden bereave- 
ment falls most heavily upon the afflicted widow and 
children of our beloved brother, who were expected to 
join him in his intended field of labor, and who instead 
thereof will be united to him no more until they like- 
wise are summoned to their heavenly rest and reward, 
we affectionately commend her and them, and also his 



y» HISTORY OF THE 

aged and venerated parents to the rich hopes and 
gracious consolation of the gospel which they have so 
often heard from the lips which are now sealed in death, 
sorrowing most of all because they shall see his face no 
more, yet they sorrow not as those who have no hope." 

Oct. 2. Rev. William Bannard was received from the 
Presbytery of West Jersey. 'Nov. 5. The Presbyterian 
Historical Society was recommended to the liberal sup- 
port of the churches of the Presbytery, and Kev. 
Andrew McElwain, who had been appointed to take 
subscriptions, donations, and contributions for the said 
Society, was commended to the confidence of the 
churches. The E-ev. W. V. Louderbaugh asked and 
obtained leave to resign the pastoral charge of the First 
Presbyterian Church of I^orthern Liberties. A call 
was presented from Trinity Church for the pastoral 
services of Eev. James D. Shanks. Eev. S. W. Dana, 
D.D., asked that leave be granted the West Walnut 
Street Church to establish a Sabbath School at Girard 
Avenue and Forty-first Street, and his request was re- 
ferred to the Committee on Church Extension. 

Dec. 3. Rev. Robert Graham was received from the 
Presbytery of ^ew Castle. Rev. M. Mangasarian was 
received, accepted a call to the Spring Garden Church, 
and was installed December 7. On December 10, the 
Rev. M. ^ew^kirk asked and obtained leave to resign 
the pastoral charge of the Bethlehem Church. A call 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 99 

was presented from the l^orth Church for the pastoral 
services of Eev. Asbury Clark. 

1884. 

Jan. 8. Eev. James D. Shanks vras received from the 
Presbytery of Redstone, accepted the call from Trinity 
Church, and was installed January 14. An application 
was made from the congregation worshiping in Hebron 
Chapel, at Twenty-fifth and Jefferson streets, and under 
the care of Olivet Church, for the organization of a 
church at that place — referred to the Committee on 
Church Extension, who subsequently reported the 
church as organized. February 4. Mr. Robert H. Kirk 
was received as a candidate for the ministry, March 3. 
A call was presented from the Hebron Memorial Church 
for the pastoral services of Rev. Robert Graham, and 
accepted. Mr. Graham was installed March 20. 

April 1. A call from the Bethlehem Church for the 
pastoral services of Rev. B. L. Agnew, D.D., was pre- 
sented. April 7. Henry Brickly and Edward M. Hay- 
maker were licensed to preach the gospel. May 5. Rev. 
B. L. Agnew, D.D., was received from the Presbytery 
of Pittsburgh, and Rev. Asbury C. Clark from the 
Presbytery of !N"orthumberland. Mr. Clark having 
accepted a call from the [N'orth Church, arrangements 
were made for his installation on the 15th inst. Dr. 
Agnew having accepted the call from the Bethlehem 



100 HISTORY OF THE 

Churcli, May 12 was appointed for his installation. 
Arrangements were made for the ordination of Mr. E. 
M. Haymaker, under appointment of the Board of 
Foreign Missions as a missionary, on the 16th inst. 

Election of Delegates to Synod. 

At the meeting of Presbytery, July 1, the following 
resolution was adopted : " Resolved^ That in the election 
of delegates to the Synod, the principle of regular ro- 
tation be observed, beginning with the head of the roll 
both of ministers and of churches, and going through 
to the end." Mr. J. H. Elliott, a licentiate of the 
Philadelphia Presbytery of the Eeformed Presbyterian 
Church was received on certificate. 

Sept. 1. Mr. Henry C. Fox was received as a can- 
didate for the gospel ministry. The name of the Sixty- 
third Street Church was changed to "Patterson Aie- 
morial Church." 

Oct. 7. Pev. Madison C. Peters was received from the 
Presbytery of Ottawa, and having accepted a call from 
the First Church of Northern Liberties, April 14 was 
appointed for his installation. Nov. 3. Mr. P. Gr. 
Pambo was received as a candidate for the ministry. 

Obituary Notice of Rev. C. P. Diver. 

" The Presbytery desires to place on record our ex- 
pression of the Christian and brotherly afiection which 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. liOl 

they entertained for Rev. C. F. Diver whom God has 
taken to himself, and our acknowledgment of his faith- 
ful services as a minister of the gospel during his long 
and honored life. Born in 1812, Mr. Diver was con- 
verted to Christ when about seventeen years old, and 
at the sacrifice of a lucrative business dedicated him- 
self to the work of the ministry. Having graduated at 
Jefferson College in 1839, and Union Seminary in 1842, 
he gathered a congregation in Jefferson ville. Pa., which 
was organized and over which he became pastor in 1843. 
He removed thence to Waterford, Pa., and afterward 
labored for eighteen years as pastor of the Second Church, 
Cedarville, ^N". J. By his earnest preaching of the 
gospel, his pastoral visitation, and the power of a godly 
life, he advanced the kingdom of Christ, and became a 
minister greatly beloved. During the last years of his 
life when he resided in Philadelphia, without charge, 
he gave cheerful and valuable aid to pastors both in 
preaching and in visitation of the sick and the afflicted. 
As a labor of love he was a constant visitor at the 
' Eastern Penitentiary,' and by his wise and tender 
admonitions was the means of rescuing some from a life 
of crime. As a man, conscientious, humble, zealous in 
every good work, charitable in spirit and in speech, 
and firmly attached to principle, with a profound faith 
in Divine Providence, he was always cheerful and con- 
tented ; he lived by faith in the Son of God who ' loved 



102 HISTORY OF THE 

him and gave himself for him,' and he fell asleep in 
the hope of the gospel. 

" Reviewing the character and useful life of their 
hrother, Rev. C. F. Diver, the Presbytery would record 
its gratitude to God for the grace manifested in his 
consecrated, useful life, their sorrow that they will 
henceforth he deprived of his saintly companionship 
and wise advice, and their renewed resolution to follow 
them who through faith and patience have inherited 
the promises." 

1885. 

Feb. 2. The Eev. L. M. Colfelt was received, accepted 
a call to the Oxford Church, and the 15th instant was 
appointed for his installation. March 2. The pastoral 
relation of Rev. H. J. Weber was, at his request, dis- 
solved. April 7. A call from the Chandler Memorial 
Church for the pastoral services of Rev. F. L. Robbins, 
D.D., and also for the pastoral services of Rev. J. H. 
Marr, was presented. 

Sympathy with General Grant. 

The following paper, presented by Dr. Eva, was unani- 
mously adopted: — 

" Resolved, That as members of the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia Central, we hereby express our deep 
sympathy with General Grant in his severe and 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 103 

painful affliction, and hope that through divine grace 
he is prepared for that final conflict which is so rapidly 
approaching, and our earnest desire that his beloved 
family may be sustained in the great sorrow which 
darkens their dwelling and desolates their hearts." 

Mr. Reni Brettinghauser was received as a candidate 
for the ministry. April 13. Mr. Peter G. Rarabo was 
licensed to preach the gospel. May 4. The plan for 
Synodical Sustentation and Home Missions, as prepared 
by Synod's Committee, was approved and adopted. 
The establishment of a " Home for Aged Couples in 
the Presbyterian Church" was strongly commended to 
the sympathy and support of the churches, also East- 
burn Mariners' Bethel. A call from the Carmel 
Church for the pastoral services of Rev. Carl Schwarz- 
burg was presented and accepted. Installed June 17. 

Princeton Church. 

June 1. In view of the approaching quarter century 
anniversary of Dr. J. A. Henry's pastorate of Princeton 
Church, Presbytery placed on record their high appre- 
ciation of their honored and beloved brother to his 
pastoral and Presbyterial duties, and their sincere prayer 
that his life might be long continued to preach the 
gospel of Christ, and to render his wise counsels to the 
courts of the Church. A committee was appointed to 
prepare a protest against a petition for permission to 



104 HISTORY OF THE 

celebrate mass in the House of Correction, presented 
by the Eoman Catholic Societies. The Rev. S. A. 
Harlow's pastoral relation to the Second Mantua 
Church, at his request, was dissolved. June 30. The 
name of Chandler Memorial Church was changed to 
" Beacon Church." Sympathy was expressed by Pres- 
bytery with Rev. W. D. Roberts in his sad bereave- 
ment by the death of his beloved wife. The pastoral 
relation of Rev. J. W. Bain to the Alexander Church, 
at his own request, was dissolved. 

Sept. 7. Rev. William Sterritt, D.D., was received 
from the Reformed Presbytery of Philadelphia, also 
the Second Reformed Church of the same Presbytery. 
Mr. James Mattheson was received as a candidate for 
the ministry. Oct. 6. Rev. G. F. WiswelFs pastoral 
relation to the Green Hill Church, at his request, was 
dissolved. Rev. W. C. Rommel was appointed Vice 
Moderator of the Presbytery. The pastoral relation of 
Rev. M. M. Mangasarian to Spring Garden Church was 
dissolved, and his name erased from the roll of Presby- 
tery. 

1886. 

Jan. 5. The Rev. W. H. McCaughey was received 
from the Presbytery of Washington, and, having ac- 
cepted a call from the Second Mantua Church, January 
14 was appointed for his installation. Mr. Francis 
Lloyd was received as a candidate for the ministry. 



PEESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 105 

Feb. 1. A call was presented from Spring Garden 
Church for the pastoral services of Rev. David Wills, 
Jr. Rev. J. W. Loch asked and obtained leave to re- 
sign the pastoral charge of the Zion Grerman Church. 
Arrangements were made for the ordination of Mr. 
Peter G. Rambo, a licentiate, Feb. 12. 

March 1. Rev. David Wills, Jr., was received, ac- 
cepted the call from Spring Garden Church, and the 
8th inst. appointed for his installation. April 6. Rev. 
B. L. Agnew, D.D., was appointed Vice-Moderator. 
A call was presented from Zion Church for the pastoral 
services of Rev. H. F. Bernhardt. Presbytery expressed 
its sympathy with A. Y. C. Schenck, D.D., under his 
sore bereavement in the death of his beloved wife. 
April 12. The Rev. H. C. Fox was licensed to preach 
the gospel. May 2. Mr. Harry W. Haring was re- 
ceived as a candidate for the gospel ministry. Rev. 
F. L. Robbins, D.D., and Rev. J. H. Marr were ap- 
pointed Stated Supplies of Beacon Church for six 
months, and Rev. Dr. Robbins Provisional Moderator 
of the Church. June 7. The Rev. J. A. Herold was 
called to the Greenhill Church, and Rev. H. F. Bern- 
hardt to Zion Church. Mr. B., having accepted the call, 
was installed July 11. Mr. Charles Wads worth, a 
licentiate, was received June 29, and arrangements 
made for his ordination and installation as assistant of 
Dr. Harper in the ^North Broad Street Church on the 



106 HISTORY OF THE 

16tli inst. E-ev. H. D. Northrop asked and obtained 
leave to resign the pastoral charge of l!^orth Tenth 
Street Church. Mr. Herold having accepted the call to 
Greenhill Church, Sept. 29 was appointed for his in- 
stallation. Rev. M. E'ewkirk, D.D., having accepted a 
call from the Bethesda Church as Collegiate Pastor, 
was installed September 12. 

Sabbath Funerals. 

^'Besolvedy That the members of this Presbytery be 
enjoined to do all in their power to discourage the cus- 
tom of holding funeral services on the Lord's Day." 

Sept. 16. Mr. William Morrison was received as a 
candidate for the gospel ministry. Oct. 5. The name 
of Kenderton Church was changed to " Tioga Church." 
Samuel Heuston was received as a candidate for the 
gospel ministry. 

Church Debts and Manses. 

A committee was appointed to consider the practica- 
bility of removing all indebtedness on church buildings 
in Presbytery, and the procurement of Manses as a 
suitable method of celebrating the coming Centennial. 

History of Presbytery. 

iN'ov. 1. W. C. Pommel was made chairman of the 
committee on the History of Presbytery. Permis- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 107 

sion was given the committee to select their historian, 
and to pay such a suitable compensation. 

Mr. Reuben Harman was received as a candidate for 
the gospel ministry. 

1887. 

Jan. 4. Mr. James H. Fitzsimmons, Mr. Albert Wirth, 
and Mr. Alfred Staeger were received as candidates for 
the gospel ministry. 

Minute on the Death of Rev. George Locker. 

" Whereas^ it has pleased God to remove by death the 
Rev. George Locker, a member of this Presbytery from 
its organization, and a pastor under its care for years : 

" Therefore^ Resolved^ That we acknowledge the hand of 
the Great Head of the Church in this dispensation, that 
we remember with gratification our brother's earnest, 
faithful work, especially as our pioneer in our now im- 
portant interest among the German people, he being 
the first pastor in this work, that we tender to his 
family our sincere sympathy in the sorrow of their be- 
reavement, and that we recognize again the voice of 
admonition, ' to work while it is called to-day, know- 
ing that the night cometh wherein no man can work.' " 

Trustees. 

Rev. S. A. Mutchmore, D.D., Rev. B. L. Agnew, 
D.D., G. S. Graham, and J. B. Stevenson were ap- 



108 HISTORY OF THE 

pointed trustees of the Presbytery, with power to name 
three other persons from the list submitted by the com- 
mittee on charter to complete the number of trustees. 

Mr. David Scott Clark was received as a candidate 
for the ministry. 

Feb. 21. Eev. David Wills, D.D., was received from 
the Presbytery of Washington, accepted a call from the 
JS'orth Tenth Street Church, and March 3 was appointed 
for his installation. Pev. D. Wills, Jr., asked and ob- 
tained leave to resign the pastoral charge of Spring 
Garden Church. Sympathy was expressed with Elder 
J. B. Stevenson in his dangerous illness, and prayer 
ofiered in his behalf. 

Death of John B. Stevenson. 

The following paper was adopted March 7. 

" Whereas, an all-wise Providence hath called into 
rest Elder John B. Stevenson, long associated with us 
in our church affairs in this city. Presbytery herewith 
records our appreciation of his many and self-denying 
labors, our severe loss sustained by his removal, and our 
gratitude to the Great Head of the Church, that 
Brother Stevenson was not taken until after he had 
seen good for many years, and had obtained the testi- 
mony that he had pleased God." 

April 5. The following additional persons were elected 
trustees of Presbytery: Eev. John Hemphill, D.D., 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 109 

Alexander Whilldin, William W. Allen, and Edward 
Partridge. One of these elders was chosen in place of 
John "B. Stevenson, deceased. 

Obituary Notice of Dr. Parsons. 

" Presbytery makes record of the death of B. B. Par- 
sons, D.D., LL.D., on the 25th of Feb. 1887. Dr. Par- 
sons was an aged minister who had spent a long time 
in the service of the Master. As a preacher of the 
gospel, a pastor of the several churches to which he 
sustained the pastoral relation, and agent for the several 
interests of Education and the Holy Sabbath, which he 
served, he was faithful, able, and useful. His latter 
days for a few years past were spent in quiet retirement 
in which, and in the bosom of his family, he finished 
his.course in the triumph of faith, and was doubtless 
called to his reward. Presbytery hereby acknowledges 
the hand of God in his removal from earth, and would 
take to heart the lesson of the dispensation, ' to work 
while it is called to-day, knowing that the night 
Cometh.' " 

A call from Alexander Church for the pastoral ser- 
vices of Rev. Alexander Alison was presented. April 
11. Mr. David S. Clark, Mr. William Morrison, and 
Mr. H. C. Fox were licensed to preach the gospel. 

May 2. Eev. Alexander Alison was received from 
the Presbytery of Baltimore, accepted the call to Alex- 



110 HISTORY OF THE 

ander Church, and June 5 was appointed for his in- 
stallation. Mr. Robert Moore was received as a can- 
didate for the ministry. June 6. Mr. James H.' Fitz- 
simmons was licensed to preach the gospel. June 28. 
The pastoral relation of E-ev. C. C. Dickey to the 
Patterson Memorial Church was, at his request, dis- 
solved. 

Sept. 5. Rev. J. Eichelson asked and obtained leave 
to resign the pastoral charge of Carmel Church. Oct. 
4. Eev. H. F. Bernhardt, pastor pf Zion Grerman 
Church, asked and obtained leave to resign his charge 
of the Church, l^ov, 7. Mr. J. B. Fisher and Mr. E. 
G, Fullerton were received as candidates for the min- 
istry. Dec. 5. Rev. H. C. Schleuter received and 
accepted a call to Carmel Church, and Dec. 16 was 
appointed for his installation. A call from the Patter- 
son Memorial Church for the pastoral services of Mr. 
G. P. Bell was presented. Mr. Bell subsequently 
accepted the call, and was ordained January 9, 1888. 
A call for the pastoral services of Rev. A. A. Murphy, 
from Spring Garden Church, was presented, afterwards 
accepted, and Mr. Murphy installed Jan. 24. 

1888. 

Jan. 3. Rev. C. T. Albrecht was called to Zion 
Church, and installed January 12. Mr. B. B. Bigler 
and Mr. C. A. Price were received as candidates for 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. Ill 

the ministry. April 3. '-'•Resolved^ That this Presby- 
tery gratefully acknowledges the goodness of God in 
returning to this Presbytery, to his church, and his 
home, Rev. S. A. Mutchmore, D.D., who, with his wife, 
as his companion, has accomplished his journey around 
the world, having travelled a distance of 36,000 miles." 

Paper on Rev. W. C. Rommel. 

"As Eev. W. C. Rommel, pastor of the Gaston 
Church, whose hospitality we now enjoy, has recently 
completed the tenth year of his pastorate, we take 
this opportunity as his fellow-presbyters to express 
to him our high appreciation of his earnest, self-deny- 
ing and successful work, nobly sustained by the coop- 
eration of the young organization in effecting a change 
of site for their church building, and rearing the foun- 
dation and first story of the superstructure of the hand- 
some and commodious church, which we earnestly de- 
sire they may be able to complete 'with shoutings of 
grace, grace unto it.' " 

Christian Union. 

The following paper, presented by Dr. Wills, was 
adopted : 

"Inasmuch as the providence of God clearly indi- 
cates a growing desire for a closer union and commu- 
nion among the various evangelical churches, 



112 HISTORY OP THE 

'^ Hesolved, That it is the sense of this Presbytery 
that special prayer ought to be made in all our congrega- 
tions for the progress of the spirit of love and unity, 
and that as ministers and elders we will encourage all 
proper efforts for the final fulfilment of our Lord's in- 
tercessory prayer ' that they all may be one.' " 

The following paper, presented by Dr. J. H. Munro, 
was also adopted : 

" The Presbytery desire to state for the information 
of their own and other churches, the Scriptural princi- 
ple whereby practical church unity can be secured and 
union formed. 

" 1. All believers in Christ constitute one body, which 
is the Church, mystical yet real, and destined to grow 
into the fulness of Him who ' filleth all in all.' 

" 2. The universal visible Church consists of all those 
throughout the world who profess the Christian re- 
ligion, together with their children. 

" 3. Mutual recognition and reciprocity between the 
different bodies who profess the Christian religion, that 
is, the recognition of the membership, sacraments, and 
ordination of the several bodies as true and valid, is the 
first and essential step toward practical church unity." 

The following are the membership figures in the last 
Statistical Reports to the Philadelphia Central Presby- 
tery : 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 



113 





Additions 


Additions 


Total 


CHURCHES. 


on 


on 






Examination. 


Certificate. 


Membership. 


Alexander .... 


47 


42 


248 


Arch Street . 








9 


17 


417 


Bethlehem . 








32 


31 


497 


Bethesda 








27 


17 


508 


Central . 








7 


8 


461 


Cohocksink 








33 


15 


756 


Covenant 








12 


11 


325 


Columbia Avenue 








5 


23 


360 


Gaston Memorial 








14 


23 


251 


Hebron Memorial 








27 


14 


281 


Kensington, First 








74 


8 


950 


Mantua, Second 








26 


28 


306 


Memorial 








21 


10 


616 


North . 








10 


7 


434 


Northern Liberties, First 






29 


1 


475 


North Broad Street 






116 


22 


699 


North Tenth Street 






13 


7 


170 


Northminster 






25 


25 


375 


Olivet . 






93 


41 


959 


Patterson Memorial 






10 


7 


184 


Princeton 






41 


26 


510 


Spring Garden 






15 


10 


191 


Susquehanna Avenue 






55 


40 


330 


Temple . 






18 


14 


407 


Trinity . 






17 


13 


275 


Tioga . 






6 


31 


233 


West Arch Street . 






37 


50 


709 


West Park . 






18 


14 


240 



CHURCHES OF THE PRESBYTERY. 



ALEXANDER CHURCH. 

On the 9tli of January, 1858, by invitation of the 
Eev. Wm. E. Schenck, D.D., then residing on the 
southeast corner of Eighteenth and Green streets, the 
following gentlemen, residents of that section of the 
city, met him at his house, for conference in regard to 
establishing a church in that neighborhood, viz : Wm. 
T. Snodgrass, Esq., Col. James Ross Snowden, John 
McDowell, Jr., Esq., and John C. Tabor, Esq. Five 
days later, it was reported by a committee appointed 
for the purpose, that a vacant store-room had been 
secured, for public worship, at the southeast corner of 
Seventeenth and Mt. Vernon streets, and it was decided 
that the proposed church should be called the Alexan- 
der Presbyterian Church, in honor of the Eev. Archi- 
bald Alexander, D.D., a few years previously deceased. 
The following data have been kindly furnished by a 
gentleman familiar with the church's history, for the 
preparation of this sketch. 

" On Sabbath, January 24, 1858, the Eev. Alfred 



116 HISTORY OF THE 

Il^evin, D.D., to whom the gentlemen of the conference 
had agreed to look as a fit and proper person to in- 
augurate public worship under the auspices of the new 
enterprise, preached in the store-room at 10.30 A.M., 
on the text — 'Who hath despised the day of small 
things?' (Zech. iv. 10.) Dr. IN'evin also preached in 
the evening — the house, at both services, being crowded 
to over-flowing. On Friday evening, January 29, a 
meeting of the trustees took place, and a charter was 
presented and adopted. On Sabbath, January 31, a 
Sabbath School was organized with seventy-six scholars. 
On the following Wednesday evening, after lecture, the 
trustees authorized a committee to buy a lot of ground 
for a permanent house of worship. This committee 
speedily secured the beautiful site where the church 
now stands — at the northeast corner of Mneteenth and 
Green. 

" In accordance with a petition presented to Presby- 
tery, and signed by a large number of persons, that 
body appointed a committee to organize the church. 
The first ruling elders were chosen March 15, 1858, and 
on March 16 Presbytery's committee formally com- 
pleted the organization. On Sabbath, April 11, 1858, 
the new church took possession of the primitive taber- 
nacle w^hich had been erected by the trustees for tem- 
porary use on the new site. On that occasion Dr. 
]:*Tevin preached from Haggai ii. 9 — ' The glory of the 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 117 

latter house shall be greater than of the former,' a pre- 
diction which has certainly been literally fulfilled, as 
the present elegant and fully appointed edifice abun- 
dantly testifies. Rev. Charles Wadsworth preached an 
eloquent sermon in the evening, on Eph. ii. 21. 

" On Sabbath evening, April 18, 1858, Dr. Alfred 
E'evin was inducted into the pastoral office by action of 
Presbytery. This relation continued until 1860, during 
which time he was made happy in the large audiences 
which sat under his ministry, and the rapid increase in 
numbers and influence of his charge. Dr. ISTevin was 
followed by the Rev. T. M. Cunningham, D.D., who, 
during his ministry of over eight years, secured the 
completion of the stately church building which the 
congregation now possesses. The Rev. George F. Cain, 
the next pastor, during his term of service, was success- 
ful in removing about $30,000 of the $54,000 of debt 
resting on the Church. The Rev. S. A. Mutchmore, 
D.D., Mr. Cain's successor, removed the remaining in- 
debtedness of the church. In 1876 a Mission School 
was organized at the corner of Eighteenth and Mont- 
gomery Avenue witK thirty-five scholars. Dr. Mutch- 
more inaugurated afternoon preaching services there, 
and in a few years a church was organized to which 
Dr. Mutchmore, in 1880, accepted a call as pastor. 
(See Memorial Church.) Rev. J. W. Bain was the 
faithful leader of Alexander Church, 1882-5." 
(9} 



118 HISTOKY OF THE 

The present popular pastor, the Rev. Alexander Ali- 
son, having accepted a hearty and unanimous call, was 
installed pastor June 5, 1887. The first year of his 
work has been blessed with the accession of over a 
score of new families to the strength of the church. 
The present actual membership is 324. The Sabbath 
School numbers 261. The average amount of money 
received and disbursed by the church during the past 
thirty years of its history exceeds $10,000 annually. 
The church property has cost the congregation in the 
neighborhood of $150,000. 

Present Eldership. 

Joseph P. Cooper, J. C. Thomson, 

James Hogg, H. W. Lambirth. 

ARCH STREET CHURCH. 

(See " History of the Presbytery of Philadelphia," 
pp. 310-12.) 

BEACON CHURCH 

is the outgrowth of the Chandler Memorial Church 
which started as a Sabbath School, organized by a 
colony from the mother church, the First Presby- 
terian of Kensington, Philadelphia, July 3, 1871. After 
a chequered experience in which its existence was 




BEACON CHURCH, CUMBERLAND NEAR CEDAR, 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 119 

greatly imperilled it took the new lease of its present 
life in 1881. At that time the Rev. James H. Marr, 
with two brothers-in-law and their wives, whilst hunt- 
ing for the most needy gospel field the city furnished 
was invited to this enterprise. An era of great pros- 
perity at once attended the combined efforts of Mr. 
Marr and his following with the devoted friends who 
in great zeal and love had held the fort " for the pre- 
vious ten years." By the Spring of 1885 the work had 
become so conspicuous by its success and breadth as to 
arrest the attention and command the resources of a no 
less prominent person than the Rev. Francis L. Robbins, 
D.D., formerly founder and pastor of the Broad and 
Oxford Streets Presbyterian Church, March 23, 1885. 
At the instance of the Rev. Jas. H. Marr his resignation 
as pastor was accepted, and the Rev. Francis L. Rob 
bins, D.D., and the Rev. Jas. H. Marr elected as asso- 
ciated pastors. From that date the church, changing 
its name to its present one, and proceeding at once to 
erect the imposing buildings which now characterize 
it, enjoyed great and uninterrupted success. From the 
year 1881, when a few friends rallied to a discouraged 
cause, the membership has increased tenfold from 54 to 
540, the Sabbath School grown from 250 to over 1000. 
The church work broadened out into the Ladies' Aid 
Society, the Young Peoples' Working Association, the 



120 HISTORY OF THE 

Institute and the Dispensary, with two Pastors, six 
Euling Elders, and an efficient Board of Trustees. 

Present Eldership. 

Samuel Wunder, Jr., J. Howard Seal, 
John Urwiler, John Davidson, 

I^^athaniel Dickey, Francis l!Taille. 

BEREAN CHURCH. 

The Berean Presbyterian Church is an outgrowth of 
the Gloucester Presbyterian Mission, which was organ- 
ized by the Lombard Street Central Presbyterian 
Church, Rev. John B. Eeeve, D.D., pastor, in the Win- 
ter of 1877-1878. Eev. Matthew Anderson, a gradu- 
ate of Oberlin College, and of Princeton Theological 
Seminary, took charge of the mission on the 14th of 
October, 1879. 

The mission was organized into a church, June 10, 
1880, by a committee of the Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia Central. Twenty-six members were received into 
the new church — thirteen by letter and thirteen on con- 
fession of faith. On July 11, 1880, the Rev. Matthew 
Anderson was installed over the new church. The 
church entered their new building on South College 
Avenue, above Ridge Avenue and Mneteenth Street, 
;N"ov. 2, 1884. The dedicatory sermon was preached by 
the Rev. W. M. Paxton, D.D., Professor in Princeton 



PEESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 121 

Seminary, who has always taken a friendly interest in 
the pastor, whose family were at one time parishioners 
of Dr. Paxton. 

The church edifice is a blue marble structure, in form 
and in appointments most attractive and useful. The 
whole work of the erection was under the care of 
Elder John McQill, of the Alexander Church, who 
rendered in every way most valuable service. But the 
greatest work was done by the pastor, Eev. Matthew 
Anderson, who labored with unconquerable zeal against 
disadvantages which would have broken down any 
ordinary man; raising outside of his congregation 
about $14,000 — a noble triumph of one of a race which 
suffered every disadvantage. 

Present Eldership. 
John Payne. 

BETHESDA CHURCH. 

The Bethesda Church of the Presbytery of Phila- 
delphia Central was a colony from the First Church, 
Kensington. That church having grown to nearly 
1100 in membership. Presbytery suggested coloniza- 
tion to a neighborhood about a mile off. The sugges- 
tion was adopted, and the pastor, Pev. W. T. Eva, 
D.D., led out 180 persons, who, worshiping in a public 
hall, were, Dec. 4, 1867, organized into a church. He 



122 HISTORY OF THE 

was elected and installed pastor, and so continues — 
honored, successful, beloved. The enterprise evidently 
had God's approval, for it v^as greatly prospered. In 
tv70 years' time a substantial and commodious building 
v^^as erected at the corner of Frankford Avenue and 
Vienna Street, in which work the congregation was 
greatly helped by that generous man, John A. Brown, 
Esq. The house will seat 1200 people. It soon 
became well filled. The labors of the pastor and 
people were blessed; accessions were constant, there 
having never been a communion without some recep- 
tions. About 1000 have been received, and the present 
members-hip is 580. A year or two ago Rev. Matthew 
lN"ewkirk was chosen as collegiate pastor. In contribu- 
tions and the various forms of Christian activity the 
church is efiacient and useful. 

Present Eldership. 
William L. Ford, David Miller, 

Alex. Henry, Robert M. Moore, 

Wm. H. Lamon, James May. 

Wm. Lloyd, 

BETHLEHEM CHURCH. 

The Bethlehem Presbyterian Church was organized 
April 10, 1873, by the Presbytery of Philadelphia 
Central with 34 members. At the same date the Rev. 



PRESBYTEKY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 123 

Matthew E'ewkirk was elected pastor. He was in- 
stalled June 1 of the same year, and continued pastor 
for ten years. 

Ground for the new church was purchased at the 
^N". E. corner of Broad and Diamond streets for the 
sum of $25,000, and a mortgage created for that 
amount, the chief part of which still remains unpaid. 

A frame chapel was erected upon the lot, and was 
dedicated to the worship of God June 22, 1873. 

A Sabbath School was organized with 50 members 
the day the chapel was dedicated. 

The corner-stone of the Sabbath School building was 
laid Oct. 16, 1875, and the building was occupied by 
the Sabbath School April 9, 1876, and the chapel con- 
nected with the Sabbath School building was occupied 
Oct. 8, 1876. 

Rev. B. L. Agnew, D.D., was called to the pastorate 
of this church in the Spring of 1884, and was installed 
Monday evening, May 12, 1884. At that time there 
were 268 communicants in the church, and a member- 
ship in the Sabbath School of 665.' At present there 
are 497 communicants in the church, and a member- 
ship in the Sabbath School of 904. 

A beautiful new church building is in process of 
erection, and the church is both spiritually and finan- 
cially in a very flourishing condition, under the able, 
faithful, and acceptable ministry of Dr. Agnew. 



124 - HISTORY OF THE 

CARMEL CHURCH. (German.) 

At the regular June meeting (1880) of the Presbytery 
of Philadelphia Central, a petition was presented by 
citizens and residents of the city, living in the neighbor- 
hood of Fourth and 'New streets, asking for the organi- 
zation of a church in connection with the General 
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. 
This petition was signed by 16 persons, who expressed 
their wish to become members. 

A committee of the Presbytery met in the Tabor 
Church, June 24, 1880, at 7 o'clock P. M., and organ- 
ized the church, as requested. The name Tabor 
Church was chano;ed to Carmel Church. The Rev. H. 
J. Weber, then missionary, was the Stated Supply of 
the church, from April 15, 1880, till April 28, 1881, 
when he was installed pastor, and continued so until 
Feb. 4, 1885. The Rev. Carl H. Schwartzbach was 
pastor from June 17, 1885, for a little more than two 
years. October 18, 1887, Rev. Henry G. Schlueter, the 
present pastor, was called, his installation taking place 
December 16, 1887. The present membership of the 
church is 110, that of the Sabbath School 100. The 
church edifice seats 800, and has a value of $16,000, all 
of which is paid for except $5000. 

Present Eldership. 
George Lenz, Philip Schmidt. 

Irvan Mueller, 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 125 

CENTRAL CHURCH. 

The Central Presbyterian Church originated in a 
colony from the Second Presbyterian Church, soon after 
the death of the Rev. Joseph Sandford, pastor of that 
church. The congregation was organized May 21, 1832, 
in the Franklin Institute, on Seventh Street. The 
church was organized on the 19th day of June follow- 
ing, in Whitefield Academy, in Fourth Street. The 
congregation worshiped in the Whitefield Academy 
for nearly two years, and until the completion of their 
own house of worship. 

On the fifth of February, 1833, the congregation was 
incorporated as " The Central Presbyterian Church in 
the City of Philadelphia." On the 22d of April, 1833, 
the corner-stone of the first church edifice was laid, at 
the corner of Eighth and Cherry Streets, with appro- 
priate religious services, by the Rev. John Breckinridge. 
At a later hour of the same day the congregation elected 
the Rev. John McDowell, D.D., then of the First Pres- 
byterian Church, of Elizabeth town, N. J., to be their 
Pastor. The call was accepted, and Dr. McDowell was 
installed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia on the sixth 
of June following. The installation took place in the 
"Whitefield Academy. On Sabbath, February 23, 1834, 
the church edifice was opened for the worship of God. 
On this occasion, the pastor preached in the morning, 



126 HISTORY OF THE 

from Isa. Ix. 13. The Eev. Samuel Miller, D.D., 
preached in the afternoon from 2 Chron. vi. 18. In 
the evening the Rev. Wm. [N'eill, D.D., preached from 
Eev. xxii. 17, last clause. 

The able, faithful, and successful pastorate of Dr. 
McDowell, of more than twelve years, was terminated, 
at his own request, in ^ov. 1845. During his pastorate, 
the church organized the Gohocksink Presbyterian 
Church, and erected an edifice for the use of the same. 

Mr. William Henry Green, a student of the Theologi- 
cal Seminary, at Princeton, was ordained and installed 
pastor of the church. May 16, 1849, and continued in 
this relation until July 7, 1851. Rev. Henry Steele 
Clarke was pastor from September 8, 1852, until his 
death, January 17, 1864 ; the Rev. Alexander Reed, 
1864-73 ; the Rev. Alfred H. Kellogg, D:D., 1873-4. 
The able present pastor. Rev. John H. Munro, D.D., 
was installed February 8, 1875. 

It was found in 1876 that, owing to the removal of 
members to newer parts of the city, the church could 
not be maintained at Eighth and Cherry Streets. The 
old church property was sold and a new church in the 
Romanesque style was built on ^N'orth Broad Street, 
above Fairmount Avenue. The dedication services were 
held May 5th, 1-878, the pastor preaching from the text 
" Holiness becometh thy house, Lord, forever." The 
success of the church has justified this movement, as 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 127 

the membership is 470 ; the Sabbath School numbers 
550 ; and there are raised every year between $16,000 
and $18,000 for religions and benevolent purposes. 

The church engages in all the benevolent work sug- 
gested by the General Assembly ; has several Foreign 
Mission Bands ; prepares from 6 to 10 boxes of cloth- 
ing every year for home missionaries ; employs a lady 
missionary to visit in the neighborhood of the church, 
and has a flourishing young people's association. 

Present Eldership. 
M. P. Hutchinson, M.D., Geo. Eastburn, 
A. A. Shumway, Chas. G. Blatchley. 

Albert Parvin, 

COLUMBIA AVENUE CHURCH. (FAIRMOUNT.) 

In 1868 a company of Sabbath School workers in the 
Spring Garden Church selected the northwest part of 
the city as a field for mission work. They secured a 
small house, gathered and organized a Sabbath School, 
and a weekly prayer-meeting. Before long the enter- 
prise became independent of the Spring Garden Church. 
After the work had been carried on for eighteen months, 
the Rev. William H. Hodge was invited to become a 
co-worker, and began his work here in the latter part 
of 1869. 

In the Spring of 1870 the Presbytery organized the 
Columbia Avenue Church, and Mr. Hodge became its 



128 HISTORY OF THE 

pastor, in which relation he still continues, with the 
high esteem of his flock and the Divine blessing on his 
labors. A building lot at 'Twenty-first Street and 
Columbia Avenue was purchased, and a stone chapel 
erected upon it. The Sabbath School and the Church 
steadily grew, and in 1883 the Presbytery united the 
Fairmount Church to this church, the two churches 
becoming one under the name of the " Columbia 
Avenue, Fairmount." At that time the entire prop- 
erty was made free from debt. The congregation has 
a lot 100 feet upon Columbia Avenue, and 140 on 
Twenty-First Street, with a beautiful stone chapel which 
was enlarged in 1876. 

The Sabbath School now numbers over 500, and the 
church over 300 members. With their property free 
from debt, the church has a beginning of a Building 
Fund of about $4000. 

Present Eldership. 
J. P. Ford, John C. McKinney, 

H. W. Flickinger, A. M. Thompson. 

THE CORINTHIAN AVENUE GERMAN PRESBY- 
TERIAN CHURCH 

was organized in the Spring of 1877 out of the rem- 
nants of the German Peformed St. Stephen's Church. 
Organized with seventy-seven members. In December, 
1877, the church called the Rev. John Richelsen as its 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 129 

first pastor, and in 1878 purchased the present church 
building on Corinthian Avenue, below Poplar Street, 
which since has been enlarged twice. After receiving 
aid from the Board of Home Missions for three years^ 
the church became self-sustaining. 

The present membership is three hundred and seven, 
with a Sunday School of 350. 

The first pastor is still in charge of the church. 

COVENANT CHURCH. 

The Second Reformed Presbyterian Church, Phila- 
delphia, was organized on the 20th of July, 1835. The 
late Rev. Samuel W. Crawford, D.D., was its first pas- 
tor. He was succeeded by the late Rev. Samuel Steven- 
son, who was installed pastor in 1842. His successor 
was Rev. William Sterrett, who was ordained and in- 
stalled as pastor on the 7th of April, 1848, and has now 
been pastor of the church, with marked evidence of the 
Divine blessing on his labors, for forty years. In 1885 
the church and its pastor were received by the Phila- 
delphia Presbytery Central, in connection with the 
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the 
United States, and is now called the " Covenant Presby- 
terian Church." 

Present Eldership. 
Thos. Carrick, W. J. McBride, 

S. D. Jordan, James Turner. 

Andrew Fleming, 



130 HISTORY OF THE 

GASTON CHURCH. 

The Gaston Church, so named in loving memory of 
the Eev. Daniel Gaston, who for twenty years was pas- 
tor of the Cohocksink Presbyterian Church, was or- 
ganized by the Presbytery of Philadelphia Central, 
June 26, 1876, with forty-three members, three ruling 
elders, and three deacons. 

This church is the outcome and successor of the 
Gaston Memorial Missionary Society of the young men 
of Cohocksink Presbyterian Church. With the ap- 
proval of the Session of their church they began a 
mission in the private dwelling at the northeast corner of 
Eleventh and Cumberland streets on Dec. 12, 1876. A 
frame chapel was erected at the northwest corner of Ger- 
mantown Avenue and Huntingdon Street and occupied 
by the church July 6, 1876. The present and only pastor, 
the Eev. W, C. Rommel, was installed i^ov. 15, 1877. 

The present house of worship, at Lehigh Avenue and 
Eleventh Street, was occupied March 11, 1883. 

The church has greatly prospered under the ministry 
of its earnest and efficient pastor, and has now two hun- 
dred and fifty-one members, and a Sabbath School mem- 
bership of four hundred and seventy-eight. 

Present Eldership. 
James Berry, Chas. P. Einig, 

I^imrod A. Harvey, Matthew McBride. 
Wm. H. Paul, 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 131 

GREEN HILL CHURCH. 

As far back as 1826 two young men, one of whom is 
now the Rev. Charles Brown, of Philadelphia, estab- 
lished a Sabbath School in the little village of Fran- 
cisville, and conducted it for three years, holding 
prayer-meetings in private houses and also in a small 
brick building on the corner of !N"ineteenth and Poplar 
Streets. In 1833 a small frame building was erected 
on the corner of what is now Perkiomen and Vineyard 
Streets, where the school was continued until the erec- 
tion of the congregation's present edifice, in 1848. 

May 19, 1846, a meeting was held in the house of 
Eev. Thomas Brainerd, pastor of the Pine Street 
Church, then temporarily residing on Green Hill, and 
a committee was appointed to take measures for the 
organization of a Presbyterian Church in that section 
of the city. The church was constituted with eight 
members, December 27, 1846, in the frame chapel, by 
a committee of the Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia. 
The corner-stone of the present church edifice was laid 
!N'ovember 15, 1847, and the building was dedicated 
December 31, 1848. 

Rev. W. W. Taylor was pastor of the church with 
great fidelity, from April 22, 1849, to May 12, 1854. 
Rev. Thomas Street's pastorate, extending from Febru- 
ary 25, 1855, to December 31, 1859, was one of great 



132 HISTORY OF THE 

activity and marked success. The Eev. Frank L. Eob- 
bins was installed pastor April 29, 1860, and continued 
so, with a very successful and prosperous ministry 
until March, 1867. The Eev. George F. Wiswell, 
D.D., was pastor from April, 1867, to October, 1885. 
During his faithful pastorate 575 were added to the 
church, mostly by profession. He left the church out 
of debt. 

The Rev. Julius A. Herold, the present pastor, be- 
gan his pastorate July 4, 1886, and under his earnest 
and acceptable ministry the church is blessed with 
gratifying prosperity. The total membership of the 
congregation is about 400. To the Sunday School has 
been added a Chinese department of over 100 members. 

Present Eldership. 
Joseph Bitler, Charles Brown. 

F. F. Brewer, 
Geo. W. Simmons, long an esteemed and efficient 
elder, has very recently been removed by death. 

HEBRON MEMORIAL CHURCH. 

The present organization began as a Mission Sab- 
bath School under the care of the Olivet Presbyterian 
Church. The school was organized at Twenty-Eighth 
and Girard Avenue, over a drug-store, in September of 
1877. Two other Presbyterian Sabbath Schools were 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 133 

merged eventually into the Hebron. Preaching ser- 
vices were held prior to the organization of the church 
in connection with the Sabbath School. Rev. J. W. 
Kirk was the first regular supply of the church. His 
successor was Rev. Wm. A. Patton. Rev. Marcus A. 
Brownson then supplied the pulpit for about two years, 
closing his labors at Hebron in the Spring of 1883. In 
October, 1883, the present pastor. Rev. Robert Graham, 
began his labors under the care of the session of Olivet 
Church. This relation continued until February 1, 1884, 
when the organization of the congregation took place. 

When the present pastor began his ministry there 
were about forty persons in attendance on the ordi- 
nances, mostly from Olivet Church. Including these, 
322 persons have altogether been received into church 
fellowship. The Sabbath School began with 12, ten 
years ago, and now numbers nearly 500. 

The congregation has authorized and approved plans 
for a church edifice to cost about $35,000, which, it is 
hoped, will be erected soon. They have secured a lot 
of ground about 90x100 feet, where the chapel now 
stands. The lot is worth about $7000. There is still 
unpaid upon it $2400. This property has all been 
acquired since the organization. The congregation is 
blessed with prosperity. 

Present Eldership. 
Henry C. Bridle, Geo. K. Richards, 

John G. Park, John H. Hahn. 

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134 HISTORY OF THE 

KENSINGTON CHURCH. 

This church was organized in 1844 by the Associate 
Eeformed Presbytery of Philadelphia. In 1845 it 
seceded from that body and became independent. In 
1846 it joined the Associate Presbytery of E'ew York. 
In 1851 it left that body and re-united with the Asso- 
ciate Eeformed Presbytery. The Eev. J. C. Lyons was 
pastor, 1845-51. 

In September, 1851, the Eev. William 0. Johnstone 
was elected pastor. He had been for six years pastor 
at Blythe, and a member of the Presbytery of ISTew- 
Castle-on-Tyne, England. The pastor-elect and congre- 
gation were received into the Old School Presbytery of 
Philadelphia, and the pastor-elect duly installed. Dr. 
Johnstone remained pastor until his death, January 
16, 1883, making the entire period of his ministry, in 
connection with Kensington Church, 31 years and four 
months. (See his Ohititary Notice.) 

The present pastor — Eev. Eobert Hunter — entered 
upon his work as pastor-elect July, 1883, and was in- 
stalled as pastor September 13, 1883. Under his effici- 
ent ministry the church continues to prosper. The 
congregation numbers 400. 

Present Eldership. 
Wm. Jeffers, William Logan, 

Wm. J. Moffit, Wm. Crosier, 

James Peters, James P. Teaz. 



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PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 135 

MANTUA, SECOND. 

In 1859 a series of neighborhood prayer-meetings 
were held in this vicinity by members of the l^orth- 
minster Church, and on June 1, 1860, the Sabbath 
School was organized at the corner of Forty-fifth and 
Lancaster Avenue. In 1860, the location was removed 
to Lancaster, near Holley, where a lot was purchased, 
and a house built, costing something over $1000. 

The first meeting, looking toward the organization 
of a church, was held Sept. 1860, when a committee 
was appointed to prepare a charter and by-laws. At a 
congregational meeting in Feb. 1864, the name of 
Second Presbyterian Church of Mantua was adopted, 
and a Board of Trustees elected. Previous to this the 
enterprise had been known as the Zion Mission, and 
had occasional and voluntary preaching. At this time 
Eev. S. Pratt was secured as Stated Supply. 

June 3, 1864, W. T. Pay and W. H. Harned were 
elected Puling Elders, and the first communion cele- 
brated. In October of 1865, on account of failing health, 
Mr. Pratt resigned. Pev. E. B. Bruen was Stated Supply 
Oct. 1865, to Jan. 1867. In June, 1867, Pev. E. Bur- 
nett became pastor, and continued so one year. Pev. 
E. Prentiss was Stated Supply 1868-9. Pev. F. Hen- 
dricks was Stated Supply from August, 1869, until Feb. 
1872, when he was elected pastor, resigning in Dec. 



136 HISTORY OF THE 

1873. May 8, 1874. Eev. J. M. Thompson was in- 
stalled pastor, and on the 7th of the following October 
ground was broken for the present church building on 
the beautiful lot at the corner of Preston and Aspen 
streets, presented to the church by W. E. Tenbrook, 
Esq., in June of 1871. The corner-stone was laid ^ov. 
2, 1874, and the chapel was finished and dedicated 
April 4, 1876. 

Mr. Thompson resigned the charge Dec. 1, 1882. 
Eev. S. A. Harlow was pastor 1883-85. The present 
pastor, Rev. W. H. McCaughey, under whose earnest 
and acceptable labors the church continues to prosper, 
was installed Jan. 8, 1886. 

Present Eldership. 
J. H. Bechtel, George E. Scott, 

Wm. D. Casterline, E. M. Dering. 
Y. E. Harkness, 

MEMORIAL CHURCH. 

At a meeting of the Session of the Alexander Pres- 
byterian Church, on the Sabbath, February 13, 1876 (of 
which the pastor, Eev. S. A. Mutchmore, D.D., was 
Moderator, and the following Elders were present, viz : 
H. IT. Thissell, Jos. P. Cooper, Josiah JSTeely, John 
McGill, Wm. W. Wallace, Thos. H. Dickson, Eeuel 
Stewart, M.D., and Wm. J. McElroy), the following 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 137 

resolution was adopted, viz : " In view of the temporal 
and spiritual condition of our Church, and of the neces- 
sity of having some outside Christian work for the 
large number of young men in our communion, and in 
gratitude to G-od for his mercies to us : Therefore, Be- 
solvedj that it is the sense of this Session that some 
missionary enterprise be started in connection with our 
church, and that we believe the northern portion of our 
city to be the proper place therefor, and that we will 
start in this work at the earliest moment practicable." 

In accordance with this resolution a mission chapel 
was erected at Eighteenth and Montgomery Avenue, 
and opened for public service on Sabbath, May 28, 
1876. A Sunday School was started at 2 J o'clock, and 
was continued with preaching at 4 o'clock, every Sab- 
bath, by Dr. Mutchmore. 

The work prospered, and a church building was com- 
menced and completed, and organized on Oct. 31, 1880, 
with 192 members, from whom two elders, Wm. W. 
Wallace and Wm. S. Einggold, and ten deacons were 
elected. 

On 'Nov. 12, 1882, the building was dedicated, free of 
debt, to the service of God, and named the Memorial 
Presbyterian Church ; and on ^ov. 19, 1882, Rev. S. A. 
Mutchmore, D.D., was installed as the pastor by im- 
pressive ceremonies. It has never had any other pastor. 
The estimated value of the building is $70,000, most of 



138 HISTORY OF THE 

which was raised through the continuous efforts of Dr. 
Mutchmore, in fulfilment of a promise made some 
years before to a little girl who, on her death-bed, 
handed him her little legacy of §4.41 wherewith to 
build a church for the poor. The present membership 
on the communion roll is 614. The church is prosper- 
ous in all its departments, under the able and faithful 
ministry of Dr. Mutchmore. His Presbytery honored 
him with resolutions of congratulation on the success 
which had attended his new and important enterprise. 

Present Eldership. 
Wm. W. "Wallace, Andrew Grraydon, M. D., 
Wm. S. Ringgold, Franklin Baker. 

NORTH CHURCH. 

This church was organized by the Presbytery of 
Philadelphia on the 21st day of November, 1831, on 
the application of a number of persons then connected 
with the First Presbyterian Church of the I^orthern 
Liberties under the pastorate of the late Rev. James 
Patterson. The early services of the church were held 
in a school-house in Poplar near Second Street, and 
were conducted by different supplies. 

The present church edifice was purchased from Rev. 
James Smith in an unfinished state and was completed 
in 1833. 



PRESBYTERY OP PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 139 

The 'Rev. Hugh M. Koontz, its first pastor, was in- 
stalled July, 1832, and the connection dissolved by 
Presbytery in July, 1834. 

The second pastor. Rev. James L. Dinwiddle, of the 
Associate Reformed Church, was installed in 1835, and 
the connection dissolved July, 1840. 

The third pastor. Rev. Thomas L. Janeway, D.D., 
was installed Dec. 8, 1840, and pastoral relation dis- 
solved March 6, 1854. 

The fourth pastor. Rev. Levi H. Christian, D.D., was 
installed ISTovember 22, 1855, and relation dissolved 
January 4, 1864. 

The fifth pastor, Rev. Robert Taylor, of Grermantown, 
Phila., was unanimously elected and the call placed in 
his hands by Presbytery April 5, 1864, but sickness 
and death prevented the consummation of the pastoral 
relation. 

The sixth pastor. Rev. Robert Henry, D.D., was in- 
stalled September, 1864, and his pastorate dissolved by 
his death at Alexandria, Egypt, October 18, 1869. 

The seventh pastor. Rev. Benjamin L. Agnew, D.D., 
was installed May 22, 1870, and relation dissolved De- 
cember 1, 1882. 

The eighth, and the church's present able pastor, 
Rev. Asbury C. Clarke, was installed May 15, 1884, 
although his ministrations to the church commenced 
six months previously. 



140 HISTORY OF THE 

The present eldership of the church consists of Wil- 
liam A. Piper, M.D., ordained and installed February 
24, 1856 ; Speakman Meeser and John L. Davis, or- 
dained and installed October, 1865. 

Of its former pastors two are still living and active 
members of Presbytery of Philadelphia Central at this 
date. 

NORTH BROAD STREET CHURCH. 

The founder and life-long patron of I^orth Broad 
Street Presbyterian Church was Matthias W. Baldwin. 
Feeling the importance of having a Presbyterian Church 
located somewhere in the vicinity of the present church 
site, he secured and fitted up Broadway Hall, corner of 
Broad and Spring Garden streets, for religious service. 
The first Sabbath service was held in that Hall on the 
tenth day of April, 1859, conducted in the morning 
by Eev. John McLeod, and in the evening by Rev. Dr. 
Jenkins. On the following Sabbath, April 17, 1859, a 
Sabbath School was organized, with Mr. Benjamin 
Kendall superintendent. 

Rev. Dr. E. E. Adams, having returned from a pro- 
tracted residence in Europe, and being without pastoral 
charge, was induced to undertake this new church en- 
terprise, Mr. Baldwin pledging his support for two 
years. He entered upon his work at once, and the 
Divine blessing crowned his labors with abundant sue- 



PEESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 141 

cess. The Hall was filled with delighted worshipers, 
and the Sabbath School multiplied with children and 
youth. Cheered by such manifest tokens of the Divine 
approval, a petition, signed by forty-two names, was, 
on the twenty-sixth day of December, 1859, prepared 
and forwarded to the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia, 
praying for the organization of a church. The petition 
was granted and the organization eflected on the ninth 
day of March, 1860, in Broadway Hall. Thirty-six 
persons were at this time received by letter and enrolled 
as members of this church. At the same time and place 
Messrs. Alexander Whilldin and Thomas Potter were 
elected ruling elders. On the second day of March, 
1860, the following persons were elected a board of 
trustees for the church : — 

Messrs. Henry Davis, Edward Patteson, Samuel Tol- 
man, Benjamin C. E'agle, James C. Scott, William H. 
Anderson, George Snowden, H. H. Eldredge, and 
Thomas S. Weigand. Subsequently an act of incor- 
poration was obtained and recorded on the seventeenth 
day of September, 1860. At a meeting of the church, 
held on the twenty -third of March, 1860, Eev. Dr. 
Adams was unanimously elected, and called to the 
pastorate of the newly organized church. The call 
was accepted, and on the evening of Sabbath, May 6, 
1860, he was installed pastor. Shortly after this, find- 
ing their place of worship inadequate to the increasing 



142 HISTORY OF THE 

audience, the religious services were changed to Com- 
missioners' Hall, on the corner of Thirteenth and Spring 
Garden streets. A building committee was appointed 
to superintend the erection of a church edifice, of which 
Mr. Henry Davis was chairman. 

Having decided to erect the church on the corner 
of Broad and Green, the deed was secured on the thir- 
teenth of August, 1860, by the payment of $2333.33 ; 
the balance of the purchase price, $15,000, to remain 
on mortgage. On the fourteenth day of April, 1862, 
the corner-stone was laid, and on the second day of 
October, 1864, the building having been completed, 
was dedicated to the worship of God. The cost of the 
entire church edifice, including lot, and spire subse- 
quently erected, was $81,347.06. After seven years of 
incessant labor. Dr. Adams was constrained by failing 
health to tender his resignation, and on the sixteenth 
of April, 1867, the pastoral relation was dissolved. 
Rev. Peter Stryker, D.D., having been subsequently 
called to the pastorate of this church, accepted, and 
was installed on the fourteenth day of May, 1868. 
This relation continued until the third day of October, 
1870, when, on invitation to another field of labor, the 
pastoral relation was again dissolved. 

On April 23, 1871, the Rev. Robert D. Harper, 
D.D., was installed pastor of the church, and continues 
so to be, greatly beloved, and eminently prosperous in 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 143 

his labors. The number of members received into the 
church during his ministry here is 1383. 

The mortgage of $15,000, placed upon the church 
property at its erection, was cancelled March 1, 1879. 

At the unanimous request of the Board of Managers 
of the E'orthern Home, a Sabbath School was organized 
in that Institution January 1, 1875, which has ever 
since been under the care of this church, and is now in 
successful operation. 

About two years since the church edifice was re- 
modelled and repaired throughout at a cost of some 
$23,000, making it both safe and attractive in all its 
appointments. The church is now out of debt. 

Some three years since a Mission Enterprise was un- 
dertaken, and a chapel erected at Twenty-seventh and 
Hagert streets, which is now in successful operation. 
Rev. George Yan Deurs is in charge of the work. The 
remaining indebtedness of the chapel, for the lot on 
which it is erected, is $1100. 

In 1887 E-ev. W. E. Loucks was elected assistant 
pastor of the church. 

Present Eldership. 
Alexander Whilldin, John H. Watt, 
Charles Godfrey , William A. Solomon, 

William E. Camp, Henry G. Goodrich, 

George C. E'apheys, Francis W. Kennedy. 

Thomas Wood, 



144 HISTORY OF THE 

NORTH TENTH STREET CHURCH. 

This church was founded in 1850. Its pastors have 
been : — 

Eev. Ebenezer Erskine, 1849-51. 
Eev. Francis Dudley Ladd, 1851-62. 
Eev. G. W. Musgrave, D.D., 1863-68. 
Eev. Matthew E"ewkirk, 1869-73. 
Eev. Wm. B. Cullis, 1873-74. 
Eev. Silas W. Gossler, 1876-80. 
Eev. Henry D. E"orthrop, 1881-86. 

Eev. David Wills, D.D., the present pastor, was in- 
stalled March 3j 1887, and the church is prosperous 
under his faithful and acceptable labors. Obituaries of 
several of the pastors of this church will be found else- 
where in this volume. 

Present Eldership. 

C. McFelton, Eobert W. Patrick. 

Jacob J. Hatches, 

NORTHMINSTER CHURCH. 

This church is an outgrowth from a Union Sabbath 
School, started at the northwest corner of Thirty-third 
and Spring Garden streets, about the year 1837. 

A lot having been purchased at the corner of Thirty- 
fifth and Spring Garden streets, the corner-stone of a 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 145 

church building was laid September 8, 1846, and on 
the 29th of that month an organization was eiFected 
under the name of the "First Presbyterian Church of 
Mantua." 

Looking to future development, in January, 1871, 
another lot of ground, southwest corner of Thirty-fifth 
and Baring streets, was secured, and on the 16th day 
of September, 1873, was laid the corner-stone of the 
present edifice. The village of Mantua having been 
absorbed by the city and disappeared from the map, 
the congregafion,at its last meeting in the old building, 
September 29, 1875, changed the name of the "First 
Presbyterian Church of Mantua" to that of the " North- 
minster Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia." 

On Sabbath morning, the 14th of ^N'ovember, 1875, 
the new building was dedicated, the then pastor. Rev. 
H. Augustus Smith, D.D., preaching the sermon from 
Psalm xcvi. 6 : " Strength and beauty are in his sanc- 
tuary." 

Dr. Smith, pastor of the church for eighteen years, 
was compelled, by failing health, to resign his charge 
in the Spring of 1882. Rev. Robert H. Fulton, of 
Baltimore, was unanimously called to the pastorate in 
May, 1883, and entered upon his duties the following 
June. 

In March, 1887, it was resolved to finish the church 
tower, reset the roof, renew the frescoing, point and 



146 HISTORY OF THE 

clean the stone work, pay the balance of ground-rent, 
and place the whole property in first-class condition 
before the meeting of the Centennial General Assembly, 
to be held in this city in May, 1888. The greater part 
of the building and repair fund having been promptly 
subscribed, the contemplated improvements were made 
(Juring last summer and autumn. The ladies, with 
good taste and commendable enterprise, purchased new 
carpets for the Lecture Room, Sabbath-school Eooms, 
and Auditorium, and presented the receipted bill for 
the same as a Christmas gift to the congregation. An 
additional sum of over ten thousand dollars, necessary 
to relieve the property of all encumbrance, has been 
recently pledged, most of it coming as free-will offerings 
on the morning of the last Sabbath of January. This 
church, admirably located, well organized, and with a 
large, harmonious, and increasing congregation, now 
enters with renewed enthusiasm upon the work of the 
future. 

Pastors. 

Eev. W. S. Drysdale, 1846 to 1848. 

Rev. Chas. S. Renshaw, May, 1849, to April, 1853. 

Rev. Thomas S. Johnston, 1853 to 1864. 

Rev. H. Augustus Smith, D.D., July, 1864, to 1882. 

Rev. Robert H. Fulton, D.D., June, 1883. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 147 

Present Eldership. 
John Shedwick, Fi^ederick W. Hotchkiss, 

George W. Barr, Edward P. Alexander, 

William W. Allen, William W. Fiske. 
George W. Memann, 

OLIVET CHURCH. 

Early in the spring of 1855 a committee was ap- 
pointed by the Missionary Association of Calvary 
Presbyterian Church, Locust Street above Fifteenth, to 
establish Sunday-schools and prayer-meetings in those 
portions of the city deemed most destitute. The com- 
mittee, consisting of Messrs. J. C. Chance, T. L. E'oyes, 
and L. Pratt, commenced their work by renting a small 
building on Coates Street, now Fairmount Avenue, east 
of Twenty-fourth, and opened a Mission Sabbath School. 
The school was organized April 29, 1855, with six 
teachers and sixty-three scholars. Mr. J. C. Chance 
w^as chosen superintendent, a position which he has 
held without interruption to the present time. 

The building proving inadequate for the accommoda- 
tion of the increasing numbers, through the liberality 
of two beloved brethren of Cavalry Church — Messrs. 
Matthias W. Baldwin and John A. Brown, a lot was 
purchased on Twenty-second and Mt. Yernon streets 
(old Washington Street), and a chapel was erected on 
the north side of the lot, the brethren named bearing 



148 HISTORY OF THE 

all the expense of the same. The corner-stone was laid 
July 25, 1855. The Sunday-school was removed to the 
new building February 3, 1856, and reached an average 
attendance of three hundred. Religious services were 
then commenced in the lecture-room, and a church was 
organized April 16, 1856, by a deputation of the Third 
Presbytery of Philadelphia. The title chosen for the 
new organization was The Olivet Presbyterian Church, 
Messrs. J. C. Chance and Henry R. Paiguel were 
chosen elders, and ordained to that office on the same 
evening. 

April 23, 1856, Rev. E. D. I^ewberry, a graduate of 
Union Theological Seminary, who had labored as a mis- 
sionary in the new enterprise from the beginning, was 
called to the pastorate of the church. He was ordained 
and installed as pastor May 2, 1856, and continued in 
this relation until October 1, 1861, blessed in his labors 
— many souls being given him as seals of his ministry. 
The Rev. W. W. Taylor was called to the pastorate 
October 16, 1861, and was installed November 3, 1861. 
Soon after this, through the gift of $20,000 by M. W. 
Baldwin, and very liberal contributions from John A. 
Brown, Alexander Whilldin, Henry T. Williams, and 
others, the new building was completed, and dedicated 
October 20, 1865, free from debt. Mr. Taylor's faith- 
ful labors as pastor terminated by his resignation April 
1, 1871. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 149 

The Eev. L. Y. Graham was unanimously called to 
the pastorate August 28, 1871, and was installed by the 
Presbytery of Philadelphia Central October 29, 1871. 
The membership was about one hundred and forty when 
he entered upon his labors. His efficient and success- 
ful pastoral relation still continues. During his service 
of the church about $35,000 have been spent on the 
buildings in remodelling, etc. There has been an 
average addition of one hundred persons to the church 
each year during the seventeen years of his pastorate. 
The church now numbers nine hundred and fifty-three 
members, and the Sabbath School seven hundred and 
thirty-one. 

Present Eldership,. 

J. C. Chance, James Cook, 

J. C. Thompson, John Andrews, 

John M. Rowe, E. T. Cummingsi 
A. Yan Haagen, 

OXFORD CHURCH. 

In January, 1865, a Sunday School was organized on 
the second floor of a large store on the southeast corner 
of Eleventh Street and Columbia Avenue. So mani- 
festly important was this movement that on the first 
Sunday the school was organized about seventy children 
were in attendance. A marked interest was created in 

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150 HISTORY OF THE 

the neighborhood, and the school continued to prosper 
to such an extent that it became necessary to procure a 
room of larger dimensions. As this was found im- 
practicable in the immediate neighborhood, it was de- 
cided to accept the invitation of Professor Wagner to 
use the large hall of his Institution, corner of Seven- 
teenth Street and Columbia Avenue. Here the school con- 
tinued to flourish, and during the Summer in the after- 
noon the Institution was opened for preaching services. 
Crowds attended these services, and besides the leading 
pastors of the Presbyterian church officiating ministers 
of other denominations were engaged to preach — Bishop 
Simpson of the Methodist Church, and Rev. Dr. Hen- 
son, of the Baptist Church, and others. All these ser- 
vices were well sustained. During the year 1866 meas- 
ures were taken to procure a lot at some eligible point 
on Broad Street, with a view to erect a chapel. In this 
movement M. W. Baldwin and Henry J. Williams, of 
the Calvary Church, and the esteemed elder of the 
I^orth Broad Street Church, Alexander Whilldin,Esq., 
were prominent. After a careful survey of the field by 
these gentlemen it was concluded to purchase the large 
lot, of sufficient dimensions for a church also, located at 
the northeast corner of Broad and Oxford streets. 

A contract was at once entered into for the erection 
of the chapel on Oxford Street. Upon the completion 
of this building the Sunday School was at once trans- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 151 

ferred from the Wagner Institute. Here the Sunday 
School soon attained a vigorous growth, with three 
hundred and twenty-five scholars in attendance, and 
sustained by a large and efficient corps of teachers. 
Preaching services w^ere also inaugurated, and a lively 
interest awakened in the movement throughout the 
neighborhood. The preaching services were continued 
for some months when the E-ev. Francis Robbins, D.D., 
was invited to take charge of the enterprise, and before 
the organization had been entered into, and through 
his personal influence, the present beautiful Oxford 
Street Church, with its lofty spire, was erected. 

In May, 1883, after a pastorate of marked success — 
the congregation having developed into great strength 
and usefulness — Dr. Hobbins, on account of impaired 
health, resigned the charge of Oxford Church. After 
a short vacancy of the pulpit, the Eev. Law^rence M. 
Colfelt was called to the pastorate, and continues to fill 
it with abundant evidence of the Divine blessing on his 
able and acceptable ministry. 

Present Eldership. 

G. E'elson Loomis, T. B. Coburn Burpee, 

Horatio G. Kern, George S. Graham, 

Samuel Lodor, Israel P. Black. 



152 HISTORY OF THE 

PRINCETON CHURCH. 

Prior to the year 1853, a lot of ground had been 
set apart by the owners of a tract then known as 
" Westminster," as a plot which any evangelical de- 
nomination of Christians which accepted the offer, and 
w^hich, perseveringly, would maintain Divine worship 
in a building erected thereupon, might occupy without 
purchase. This lot was situated on Lexington Street, 
and on it a band of Christian workers succeeded in 
erecting a small frame building, and Divine worship 
was instituted, and, for a time, sustained in it after 
the form and order of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
These friends abandoned the undertaking, and the Rev. 
E. D. Saunders, D.D., Principal of the Classical School 
in West Philadelphia, consented to preach the Gospel 
there, commencing his labors April 16, 1853, and con- 
tinuing them for two years, with marked devotion and 
self-denial. 

Oct. 4, 1855, "application was made to Presbytery 
by a number of persons living on the west of the 
Schuylkill, to organize a church, to worship, at present, 
about three miles from the place where the Belmont 
Church worships." This was the first step taken to 
organize the church which was the germ or nucleus of 
the Princeton Church. The committee appointed by 
Presbytery for this purpose reported I^ovember 12, 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 153 

1855, that they had organized the church in Westmin- 
ster, West Philadelphia {i. e., the church on Lexington 
Street), October 22, 1855. July 7, 1856, the Rev. C. 
H. Ewing, who had preached to the people for some 
time, reported that the church had taken the name of 
the " Lexington Street Church." The elders elect of 
this church having declined the acceptance of the office, 
Presbytery appointed a committee to perfect its or- 
ganization. July 6, 1858, this committee reported 
that on June 20 Messrs. Henry C. Blair and Samuel S. 
Shriver were ordained ruling elders of said church. 

Before this, however, ^. e., in March, 1857, the frame 
building, which was located upon Lexington Street, 
was removed to a lot on the west side of Thirty-Mnth 
Street, between Powelton Avenue and Baring Street. 
Here the congregation worshiped for fourteen months, 
and in June, 1858, as the chapel could no longer con- 
tain the increasing congregation, public service was 
adjourned to the West Philadelphia Institute, the 
building now occupied as the Presbyterian Hospital. 
" On this occasion," says Mr. Reeves in his early history 
of the congregation, " the Church was regularly organ- 
ized by a committee of the Presbytery." In September 
of the same year the name of the congregation was 
changed to the "Princeton Presbyterian Church of 
Philadelphia." 

In Sept. 1858, definite action was taken by the Board 



154 HISTORY OF THE 

of Trustees in regard to the building of a church on 
what was then called Powelton Avenue and Thirty- 
!N"inth Street, now Powelton and Saunders Avenues. 
The lot chosen for the purpose had previously been do- 
nated by Mrs. Sarah Miller, widow of the Eev. Samuel 
Miller, D.D., of Princeton, 1^. J. The corner-stone was 
laid by the venerable Dr. J^eill, Oct. 13, 1858. Before 
the church building was entirely completed, the Pev. 
Mr. E wing resigned his position as Stated Supply. Mr. 
J. Addison Henry, then a student at Princeton Semi- 
nary, was called to the pastorate April 16, 1860 ; ac- 
cepted the call and was ordained and installed in the 
completed church edifice, June 5, 1860. Here Dr. 
Henry has ever since continued in earnest labor, hav- 
ing an abundant blessing on his faithful and acceptable 
ministry. 

Present Eldership. 
James Bateman, John A. Linn, 

Andrew Blair, Thomas J. Tash, 

Joseph M. Collingwood, John H. Weistling, 
J. M. Gemmell, M, D., John E. Stevenson. 

RICHMOND CHURCH. 

In 1845, through the efforts of Messrs. Joseph Ash- 
ton, T. B. Smith, and L. P. Burton, this church was 
organized. Two of these gentlemen, at least, were 
members of the ^N^orth Church, Sixth above Green. A 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 155 

frame house of worship was erected and dedicated in 
1846. 

Eev. Charles M. Oakley was the first pastor, remain- 
ing only until May, 1847. The pulpit was supplied by 
various ministers until Feb. 1848, when Rev. Samuel 
D. Alexander became pastor. He continued in this re- 
lation until Jan. 1850. He was succeeded by Rev. 
William Dodd, who remained in charge until May, 
1851. In Feb. 1852, Rev. James G. Shinn became 
pastor, and filled the pulpit acceptably and successfully 
until 1861. Mr. Shinn was succeeded hy Rev. David 
Kennedy, who resigned in 1863, to be followed by Rev. 
A. M. Jelly, who labored with success until 1870, when 
he resigned. The Rev. Henry James Owen assumed 
the pastorate in 1870, and was greatly blessed in his 
labors, until his death in the Spring of 1877. (See his 
obituary notice in the Minutes of the Presbytery.) 
Through hard work on his part, and that of the peo- 
ple, a new church edifice was completed, with a debt, 
which was finally extinguished in 1886. Rev. McDuff 
Simpson was pastor 1877-80. 

The present, and ninth pastor of the church. Rev. 
Geo. H. Stuart Campbell, commenced his labors in 'Nov. 
1880, and the church prospers under his faithful minis- 
try, during which the last of the church debt was paid. 

Present Eldership. 
John Mcholson, James Craig, 

George Smyth, Joseph McFarland. 



156 HISTORY OF THE 

SPRING GARDEN CHURCH. 

Organized January 18, 1846, with eighty-seven com- 
municants. Rev. John McDowell, D.D., the first pas- 
tor, was installed February 3, 1846. The first services 
were held in Whitefield Chapel, Fourth, below Arch 
Street, December 14, 1845. Most of the members 
came from the Central Church, and Dr. McDowell had 
been pastor of that congregation for twelve years. 

The present building was dedicated May 16, 1847. 
On March 16, 1851, owing to wet snow upon it, the roof 
fell in. Until the building was repaired the congre- 
gation worshiped in Spring Garden Commissioners' 
Hall. The church was re-opened and re-dedicated Oc- 
tober 5, 1851. The whole indebtedness was cancelled 
in 1858. 

E-ev. Morris C. Sutphen was ordained and installed 
as collegiate pastor along with Dr. McDowell, May 1, 
1860. Dr. McDowell died February 13, 1863. He 
was one of the founders of Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian Church in 1820. (See his obituary notice.) 
Mr. Sutphen was now sole pastor and continued such 
until April 6, 1866, when the relation was dissolved 
and he became associate pastor with Dr. McElroy of 
the Scotch Presbyterian Church, IRew York City. He 
died June 18, 1875, at the early age of thirty-seven. 

Eev. David A. Cunningham, D.D., was installed pas- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 157 

tor June 13, 1866. In 1868 the " McDowell Memorial 
Sabbath School" was organized from this church, which 
has now become the Columbia Avenue Presbyterian 
Church. Dr. Cunningham continued pastor until 
April 13, 1876, when he was released to take charge of 
First Presbyterian Church of Wheeling, West Virginia. 
Rev. Joshua L. E-ussell was called October 11, 1876, 
as pastor. He was released I^ovember 1, 1882. Eev. 
Mangasar M. Mangasarian, an Armenian, was the next 
pastor, being called ISTovember 29, 1882, and leaving 
October 4, 1885. Rev. David Wills, Jr., was called 
January 27, 1886, continuing until February 16, 1887. 
The present pastor is the Rev. Archie A. Murphy, son 
of Rev. Thomas Murphy, D.D., of this city, who was 
installed January 24, 1888, and enters upon his labors 
with encouraging promise of success. 

Present Eldership. 

Edwin Booth, Samuel B. Garrigues, 

Thomas M. Freeland, William K. Joraleman. 

SUSQUEHANNA AVENUE CHURCH. 

The Susquehanna Avenue Presbyterian Church, of 
which the Rev. R. T. Jones is pastor, originated in the 
Spring of 1882 on the second floor of a factory, corner 
of Susquehanna Avenue and Marshall Street. It was 
chartered the same year. 



158 HISTOKY OF THE 

The present pastor, on graduating at Princeton, be- 
gan his labors on the first Sabbath of May, 1882, and 
was ordained and installed the following June. At 
that time there were thirtj-three active members. 
In September, 1882, ground for the present building 
was broken, and the church was entered and dedicated 
in January, 1883. The church at present has 330 
members, and 410 scholars in the Sabbath School. 

The congregation expects to spend $30,000 this year 
on enlarging and completing the church. 

In a most significant manner the Lord has blessed 
this part of the vineyard. 

Present Eldership. 

Wm. Davidson, John Craig. 

Wm. Hampson, 

TEMPLE CHURCH. 

This church was organized June 24, 1835, in Com- 
missioners' Hall, Third Street, below Grreen, under the 
title of " The Central Presbyterian Church of Northern 
Liberties." On the 14th of E'ovember of that year 
the congregation removed to and formally dedicated 
the lower room of the church building on Coates Street, 
below Fourth. The corner-stone of the present large 
and handsome church edifice, northeast corner of 
Franklin and Thompson, was laid July 8, 1869. The 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 159 

lecture-room was opened May 8, 1870, with appropriate 
exercises. The raain audience-room was finished and 
the church dedicated on Sabbath, February 4, 1872. On 
December 2d of that year the name of the corporation 
was changed to that of " Temple Presbyterian Church." 

The Rev. William H. Burroughs, installed first pastor 
of the church August 24, 1835, was compelled to resign 
within a year on account of ill health, and died soon 
after. 

The Eev. Thomas A. J. Mines was installed as second 
pastor in September, 1836, but in two months was com- 
pelled to resign, owing to illness. 

The Eev. Anson Rood became third pastor, by formal 
installation, Dec. 15, 1837, which office he continued to 
hold until 1849, when, on account of broken health, he 
withdrew. 

The Eev. James P. Wilson, D.D., assumed the 
pastorate, Jan. 4, 1850, but Jan. 13, 1851, accepted a 
call to the Professorship of Theology in the Union 
Theological Seminary of ISTew York. 

The Eev. George Duffield, Jr., became pastor, May 
13, 1852, and continued as such until June 19, 1861. 
The Eev. James Y. Mitchell was pastor from June 11, 
1862, to Sept. 1, 1876. The Eev. Walter D. Mcholas 
was installed pastor May 10, 1877. Eesigned June 28, 
1880. 

The present pastor, the Eev. William Dayton 



160 HISTORY OF THE 

E-oberts, was installed March 15, 1881, and under his 
faithful and acceptable ministry the church continues 
to make steady and solid progress. 

Present Eldership. 

Abner Lincoln, S. W. Wolf, 

David C. Golden, E. R. Craven, 

Lewis Davis, Alfred D. Way. 

TIOGA CHURCH. 

The Tioga Church was organized Jan. 16, 1859, in 
the Rising Sun school-house. By appointment. Rev. 
Thomas Brainerd preached the sermon from Psalm 
XX. : 2. It was called the Kenderton Church, and under 
the Old Fourth Presbytery. Its first elders were 
Thomas Craven and John C. Thompson. The corner- 
stone of the present edifice was laid Oct. 24, 1859. Com- 
pleted and dedicated April 5, 1866. 

The ministers of the church have been Rev. Richard 
Walker, who was Supply from the organization until 
April 11, 1860, when he was called as pastor. This 
relation continued until the close of 1862. Rev. Francis 
Hendricks then supplied the church until Aug. 1867. 
Rev. Samuel W. Duflield was called Oct. 14, 1867, 
ordained and installed J^ov. 12, 1867. His pastorate 
terminated May, 1870. Rev. A. V. C. Schenck was 
called June 15, 1870, installed J^ov. 8, 1870, and con- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 161 

tinued as pastor until 'Nov. 1879. Rev. E. P. Heberton 
became Stated Supply June 1, 1880, was called as pastor 
Dec. 13, 1880, and was installed Feb. 15, 1881. His 
relation was dissolved Oct. 3, 1882. The present pas- 
torate began March, 1883. During its continuance the 
indebtedness of the church has been extinguished, the 
name changed from Kenderton to Tioga Presbyterian 
Church, and the building enlarged and refitted at an 
expense of $14,000. The church is in a flourishing 
condition. 

Present Eldership. 

Dayton W. Hulburt, James Grant (elder elect). 

James C. Shiles, 

TRINITY CHURCH. 

This church was organized May 3, 1861, with a 
membership of about 10, and one elder — James 
McCutcheon. It was no doubt too early a beginning 
for the church to make much headway. The neigh- 
borhood was building very slowly ; not until the last 
few years has there been any favorable opportunity for 
growth. 

Rev. W. R. Work was the first Moderator of Session, 
June 2, 1861, and his last meeting was September 28, 
1862. Rev. John Lyle was the next Moderator, from 
July, 1863, till September, 1863. Rev. John Ewing 
began his pastorate January 1, 1864, and resigned 



162 HISTOEY OF THE 

October, 1869. Eev. E. A. Brown was Pastor, 1870-73 ; 
Eev. B. B. Parsons, D.D., 1873-81; Eev. Andrew 
Lees, 1882-83. 

The present pastorate (Eev. J. D. Shanks) began De- 
cember 23, 1883, and has been quite an encouraging 
season of church work. So far nearly 200 members 
have been added to the church under the pastor's earn- 
est and acceptable ministry, and the future is full of 
promise. 

Present Eldership. 
Wm. Chard, P. B. Berkheiser, 

David Harvey, Eobert Graham, 

John Thompson, H. B. Graves, 

Alex. M. Long, B. B. Barber. 

FIRST CHURCH IN THE NORTHERN LIBERTIES. 

The district of the E'orthern Liberties was incorpo- 
rated in the year 1803, and was consolidated with the 
city in 1854. As early as 1777, at the corner of Sec- 
ond and Fairmount Avenue, the Second Presbyterian 
Church began missionary operations, and on the 22d of 
April, 1813, the people agreed to form themselves into 
a church distinct and separate from the Second Church 
(then at Second and Arch), to be styled "The Pirst 
Presbyterian Church in the ^N'orthern Liberties," with 
Eev. James Patterson (of whom a sketch is elsewhere 
given) as pastor. Under Mr. Patterson's ministry 1700 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 163 

were converted, 60 of whom entered the Gospel minis- 
try. 

In 1833 the present commodious building on Button 
wood, below Sixth Street, was erected. This church is 
the oldest organization and building north of Market 
Street, and the "Mother Church" of the Philadelphia 
Central Presbytery. In this church was organized the 
first Sunday School in Philadelphia devoted exclusively 
to the gratuitous teaching of the Bible. The success of 
this school stimulated the establishment of other 
schools, and in 1820 the church had ^yb Sunday 
Schools under its care. Schools started in every direc- 
tion through the quickened zeal of the congregation. 

In 1838 Eev. D. L. Carroll, D.D., President of Hamp- 
den and Sydney College, was called to the pastorate. 
In 1844 Dr. Ezra Stiles Ely became pastor. (See his 
sketch.) In 1852 Dr. Thomas J. Shepherd entered 
upon his ministry, and for nearly thirty years was the 
successful and beloved pastor. Eev. W. Y. Louder- 
baugh was pastor for a short time. In 1884 the Rev. 
Madison C. Peters was called to the pastorate, and un- 
der his earnest and acceptable ministry the church is 
filled to its capacity from Sabbath to Sabbath, and en- 
largement of the building is contemplated. 

Present Eldership. 
John S. Bellows, S. C. Graham. 

Wm. C. Peters, 



164 HISTORY OF THE 

■WEST ARCH STREET CHURCH 

was organized as the Eleventh Presbyterian Church 
I^ovember 26, 1828, with twelve male and ten female 
members ; the Sunday School of which had been organ- 
ized in January, 1828, in a room at the corner of Eace 
and Juniper Streets. The first meeting of the new 
enterprise was held in the lecture-room of the Second 
Presbyterian Church, March 29, 1828, and until Octo- 
ber, 1854, the congregation worshiped in the church on 
Vine Street, west of Twelfth Street, when it met in the 
lecture-room of the present building. 

This building occupies eighty-six feet on Arch and 
Cuthbert Streets, and one hundred and fifty feet on 
Eighteenth Street ; it contains sittings for nine hundred 
persons in the body of the church, and two hundred 
in the galleries, and cost, exclusive of the ground, 
$103,571.27. The corner-stone was laid May 21, 1855. 

Pastors. 

John L. Grant, June, 1829, to February, 1850. 
John Miller, May, 1850, to December, 1855. 
Jonathan Edwards, D.D., June, 1857, to March, 1866. 
Alphonso A. "Willits, D.D., April, 1867, to October, 1880. 
John Hemphill, D.D., December, 1882. 

Present Eldership. 
James Pollock, T. O. Gayley, 

George Stevenson, DeB. K. Ludwig. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 165 

This church, under the ahle and faithful ministry of 
its present pastor, Eev. Dr. Hemphill, with the coopera- 
tion of his coadjutors, is in a highly flourishing condi- 
tion. In it all the departments of Christian activity 
are filled with great zeal, system, and vigor, and the 
growth of the congregation, already large, is steady 
and solid. 

VTEST PARK CHURCH. 

The West Park Church was organized May 15, 1859, 
under the name of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Hestonville. Eev. E'athaniel West, D.D., who was at 
that time pastor of the newly organized Belmont 
Church, Dec. 6, 1857, began to hold preaching service 
on Sabbath afternoon in Watson's Hall, corner of Fifty- 
Second and Lancaster Avenue, and the interest so de- 
veloped, that a call was given to Dr. West to devote 
the half, and ultimately the whole, of his time to this 
newer mission field. On Sabbath evening. May 15, 
1859, the church was organized by a committee of the 
Presbytery of Philadelphia, fourteen persons being re- 
ceived on certificate and eight on profession of faith. 

Dr. West was installed in the pastorate July 25, 1860, 
and continued in this relation until July 20, 1862, when 
he resigned to accept a chaplaincy in Satterlee (U. S.) 
Hospital. Oct. 7, 1862, Rev. A. M. Jelly, then pastor 
of the Belmont Church, was permitted by Presbytery 
{12) 



166 HISTORY OF THE 

to accept a call to devote half of his time to the First 
Church of Hestonville as Stated Supply, and continued 
in charge until June 24, 1866. The Sabbath School, 
which was begun soon after the preaching services were 
established, was held continuously in "Watson's Hall, 
then later in " Munro Hall," where also the services of 
worship were held until the congregation removed to 
its new church building in 1868. 

Rev. W. r. P. ISToble served the church temporarily. 
In JSTovember 15,1866,Rev. John Moore became Stated 
Supply for six months. Rev. Alfred Paull was installed 
pastor February 1, 1867, and continued so until March 
17, 1872, when, through failing health, he resigned. 
During his pastorate the lot was purchased, and the 
brick edifice erected, which the congregation still occu- 
pies. Rev. D. Y. Campbell served the church as Stated 
Supply, and April 29, 1873, the Rev. Andrew McElwain 
was installed pastor, continuing in this relation until 
1880. During his pastorate a new Sabbath School 
building was reared on the lot. 

Rev. J. R. Miller served the church as Stated Supply 
for several months. Rev. J. Henry Sharpe, D.D., was 
installed pastor April 1, 1881. In the following year 
the name of the church was changed to West Park 
Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. In 1884 the 
Sabbath School building was enlarged. In 1886 a lot 
adjoining the church was purchased for its future en- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 161 

largement. In 1882 the church which had been aided 
from its organization by the Board of Home Missions, 
became self-sustaining, and has developed increasing 
strength every year since. The church membership is 
two hundred and thirty-five, and the Sabbath School 
numbers three hundred and twenty-five. Dr. Sharpe's 
ministry is eminently blessed in this field of labor. 

Present Eldership. 

Walter Riddle, James Logan, 

John Wilson, Wm. Saylor. 

Louis Kirk, 

YORK STREET CHURCH. 

This church was organized July 31, 1849, by the 
Philadelphia Reformed Presbytery in connection with 
the General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian 
Church in the United States, as the Fifth Reformed 
Presbyterian Church. Rev. Thomas Flavel was or- 
dained its first pastor April 11, 1850, and remained only 
till August 30, 1850, when he was dismissed to assume 
a charge in Cincinnati. The Rev. A. Gr. McCauley, 
D.D., became the next pastor, and still sustains this re- 
lation. He was ordained April 7, 1853, and has just 
completed, recently, 35 years of very acceptable and 



168 HISTORY OF THE 

successful service. The church was received into the 
Philadelphia Presbytery Central, in May, 1881. 

Present Eldership. 

David McKibben, Joseph Ewart. 

COHOCKSINK CHURCH. 

The Cohocksink Presbyterian Church was organized 
on the second Sabbath of March, 1840. Rev. Griffith 
Owen was pastor from the organization until IN'ovember, 

1844. Rev. Daniel Gaston was pastor from January, 

1845, until his death in May, 1865. Rev. Samuel A. 
Mutchmore was pastor from January, 1867, until May, 
1872. He had preached several months before his in- 
stallation. Rev. William Greenough, the present pas- 
tor, was installed February 23, 1873. 

The first church was built on the Germantown Road 
in 1841. 

The present building was erected in 1867 at Franklin 
Street and Columbia Avenue. 

The church, under Mr. Greenough's faithful labors, is 
in good condition. It has the Church Sabbath School, 
and a Mission Sabbath School at Second and Filter 
streets. 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 169 

Present Eldership. 

George Gabel, John 0. Hughes, 

Joseph Harvey, Wm. E. Krewson, 

Joseph G. Harvey, W. J. Graham, 

Andrew J. Miller, Eobert Scott. 

FIRST CHURCH, KENSINGTON. 

This church was founded and organized by the Pres- 
bytery of Philadelphia in 1813-14 — the ecclesiastical 
body formed March 24, 1814. 

It was located in what was then a suburban region 
of the city commonly called "Fishtown," the inhabi- 
tants being largely engaged in the fishing business. 
The population was sparse and almost destitute of 
means of grace, so that the field was emphatically a 
missionary one. There were in' the organization only 
nine persons, seven males and two females. 

The first pastor called ^ve days after the organiza- 
tion was the Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, who did not ac- 
cept the call. On the sixth of February following 
(A. D. 1815) the little congregation made a unanimous 
call to the Rev, George Chandler, a licentiate of the 
Presbytery of Hudson, E^ew York, to become their 
pastor. 

The call was accepted. Mr. Chandler entered upon 
his duties, and continued in them for nearly a half 



170 HISTORY OF THE 

century — forty-five years — until God called him to rest. 
The remains of Mr. Chandler repose in the family 
burial lot at Laurel Hill Cemetery. But on the left 
front of the church edifice there stands a beautiful 
monument to his memory, erected by the voluntary 
contributions of the citizens of the old district of Ken- 
sington, on which are a medallion of him in whose 
honor it was reared, a record of his birth, death, age, 
etc., his last charge, " Be faithful to Jesus," and this 
simple but beautiful and strikingly true eulogy : He 
was the representative of Christianity in its purity. 

During Mr. Chandler's pastorate, a great work had 
been wrought. The church had grown from the hand- 
ful of nine communicants to about nine hundred. Two 
houses of worship had been built and paid for, the first 
adapted to " beginnings," and located on Palmer Street, 
near Queen, as it was then called, now Richmond ; the 
second and present one a stately structure with lofty 
spire, and capable of seating a thousand persons, on 
Girard Avenue, near Hanover Street. 

In October following the decease of Mr. Chandler, 
the church called to its pastorate the Rev. William T. 
Eva, who for seven years labored therein with great 
success, and then the communicants having increased 
to about eleven hundred in number, he resigned the 
pastorate and led out a hundred and eighty-two mem- 



PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 171 

bers as a colony to organize a church about half a mile 
away, the Bethesda. 

The winter following, the Eev. J. Harvey Beale was 
called to the pastorate, and continues to this present 
time therein, the church still being one of the largest 
and most prosperous of our denomination in the city* 
It has since sent out another colony, the Beacon Church, 
which has already grown into an interest of large size 
and much usefulness. 

Present Eldership. 

William Afflesbach, David S. Smith, 

John Clouds, A. H. Hulshizer, M.D. 

William J. Crowe, 

PATTERSON MEMORIAL CHURCH. 

Preaching commenced about January, 1877, in Man- 
cill Hall, Sixty-Third and Yine Streets, the Eev. C. C. 
Dickey officiating. The present handsome chapel in 
which the congregation worships was erected in 1884. 
The original name of the church, Sixty-Third Street 
Presbyterian Church, was changed to the present one 
at the time the new building was erected. The Rev. 
C. C. Dickey became pastor of the church in 1880, and 
continued so with much fidelity and success until 1887, 
when failing health required his resignation of the 
charge. The present pastor. Rev. G-. B. Bell, was in- 



172 HISTOKY OF THE PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL. 

stalled January 10, 1888, and under his ministry the 
church is in a very promising condition. 

Present Eldership. 
Howard B. Arrison, Compton James. 

ZION CHURCH. (GERMAN.) 

This church is under the pastoral care of the Eev. H. 
F. Bernhardt. Its membership numbers 260. 

Present Eldership. 
August Klose, Henry Eothmann, 

Leonard Maurer, Ferdinand Stadler. 

Edward Eisner, 



INDEX 



Alexander Church, Rev. Dr. Mutch- 
more called to, 48, 49. 

— — sketch of, 114-18. 

Beacon Church, sketch of, 118-20. 
Beadle, Rev. E. R., D.D., received, 

25. 
Berean Church, sketch of, 120. 
Bethesda Church, 121. 
Bethlehem Church, 122. 
Brown, Rev. R. A., obituary notice 

of, 57. 

Carmel Church, 124. 
Central Church, 125. 

— — removal of, 61. 

Chandler, Rev. George, 169-70. 

Christian, Rev. Levi H.,D.D., obitu- 
ary notice of, 21. 

Church at Jacksonville, Fla., 35. 
Church Debts and Manses, 106. 
Clarke, Henry Steele, D.D., death 

of, 19, 
Cleghorn, Rev. E. B., 86. 
Cohocksink Church, 168. 
Columbia Ave. Church, 127. 
Corinthian Ave. Church, 128. 
Covenant Church, 129. 

Diver, Rev. C. F., minute on death 

of, 100. 
Drier, Rev. C. F., obituary notice 

of, 100. 

Election of delegates to Synod, 
100. 

First Church in the Northern Liber- 
ties, 162. 
First Church, Kensington, 169. 
Forbes, Rev. C, death of, 79. 
Frost, Rev. N., death of, 44. 



Gaston Church, 130, 

Gaston, Rev. Daniel, death of, 27. 

General Council of Presb. Church, 

63. 
Gossler, Rev. S. W., death of, 77. 
Grant, General, sympathy with, 102. 
Green Hill Church, 131. 

Heberton, Rev. E. P., minute on 
death of, 97. 

— — obituary notice of, 97. 
Hebron Memorial Church, 132. 
Henry, Dr. R. W., minute on death 

of, 39. 
Historical discourses, 58. 

Johnston, Rev. James R., death of, 

26 
Johnstone, W. 0., D.D., minute on 

death of, 94. 

Kensington Church, 134. 
Kollack, Shephard K., D.D., obitu- 
ary notice of, 23-25. 

Ladd, Rev. Francis D., minute on 
death of, 12-13. 

Last Statistical Report of Presby- 
tery, 113. 

Lehigli Ave. Church dissolved, 60. 

Locker, Rev. George, death of, 107. 

Mantua, Second, 135. 
McCluskey, Dr., death of, 74. 
McDowell, Rev. John, D.D., obitu- 
ary notice of, 12. 
Meeker, Rev. D. C, death of, 82. 
Memorial Church, 136. 
Miller, Rev. J., death of, 47. 
Ministry, increase of, 31. 
Minutes of sympathy, 56. 
Mission S. S. at 62d and Vine, 61. 



174 



INDEX. 



Moderators, election of, 44. 
Musgrave, G. W., D.D., LL.D., 

called to Penn Church, 

13. 

— — obituary notice of, 88. 

North Church, 138. 
North Broad Street Church, 140. 
North Tenth Street Church, 144. 
Northminster Church, 144. 

Olivet Church, 147. 

Olmstead, Rev. Dr., obituary notice 

of, 45. 
Organization of Presbytery after the 

reunion, 40-44. 
Orphanage, Presbyterian, 62. 
Overture approved, 37. 
Owen, Rev. H. J., obituary notice 

of, 68. 
Oxford Church, 149. 

Parsons, B. B., D.D., obituary min- 
ute of, 109. 

Patterson Memorial Church, 171. 

Paull, Rev. A., obituary notice of, 
52. 

Peace, thank-offering for, 30. 

Preaching stations, 32. 

Presbyterian Hospital, 46, 51, 72. 

Presbytery, history of, 106. 

Presbytery, reason for its organiza- 
tion, 1, 2. 

— organization of, 4, 5. 

— elders present, 6. 

— original members of, 6. 
Princeton Church, 103, 152. 

Reception of ministers and licenti- 
ates, 65. 
Re-union, 37. 



Richmond Church, 154. 

Rommel, Rev. W. C, paper on. 111. 

Sabbath, The, 58. 

Sabbath Funerals, 106. 

Sabbath Schools, report on, 15, 16. 

Saunders, Rev. Dr., death of, 50. 

Secular papers, circulation of, on 

Lord's day, 30, 64. 
Smaltz, Rev. J. H., death of, 9. 
Smith, Dr. C. A., minute on death 

of, 71. 
Smith, H. A., D.D., minute on death 

of, 93. 
Spring Garden Church, 156. 
Stevenson, John B., death of, 108. 
Susquehanna Ave. Church, 157. 
Sympathy with General Grant, 102, 

Temperance, 46. 
Temperance again, 49. 
Temple Church, 158. 
Tioga Church, 160. 
Total abstinence, 45. 
Trinity Church, 161. 
Trustees of Presbytery, 107, 108. 
Tudehope, Rev. A., death of, 11. 

Union, Christian, 111-112. 

West Arch Street Church, 164. 

West Park Church, 165. 

West, Rev. N., D.D., obituary notice 

of, 20. 
Woman's For. Mis. Soc, 67. 
Work, Rev. W. R., death of, 90. 

York Street Church, 167. 

Zion Church (German), 172. 



KOLL 



OF 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES 



IN CONNECTION WITH THE 



CENTRAL PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA, AND THE 
PRESBYTERY OF PHMDELPHIA CENTRAL, 

From 1860 to 1888. 



PREPARED BY 

The Rev. W. M. EICE, D.D. 



CENTRAL PRESBYTERY OF PHILADELPHIA. 



The Synod of Philadelphia, at a meeting held Oct. 19, 
1860, divided the Presbytery of Philadelphia, making Market 
Street from the Delaware westward the line of division. The 
churches north of said line with their pastors were constituted 
a new Presbytery, under the name of The Central Pres- 
bytery OF Philadelphia. The churches within one square 
north and south were allowed their choice as to which Pres- 
bytery they should belong. The new Presbytery, by direction 
of Synod, met for organization in the Spring Garden Church, 
Dec. 4, 1860. 

ROLL. 

No. 1. John McDowell. Phila. Pby. No. 308. Received Dec. 4, 

1860, Spring Garden Ch. Died Feb. 13, 1863. D.D. 
No. 2. Daniel Gaston. Phila. Pby. No. 414. Received Dec. 4, 

1860, Cohocksink Ch. Died April 29, 1865. 
No. 3. James G. Shinn. Pliila. Pby. No. 418. Received Dec. 4, 

1860, Richmond Ch. Released Oct. 1, 1861. Pliila. Central Pby. 

June, 1870. Dismissed Sept. 15, 1873, Pby. West Jersey. Received 

Dec. 6, 1880, Pby. West Jersey. 
No. 4. Charles "W. Shields. Phila. Pby. No. 450. Received Dec. 

4, 1860, Second Ch. Released Oct. 2, 1865. Pby. New Brunswick, 

June, 1870. Ordained Nov. 8, 1849. D.D. 

No. 5. Francis D. Ladd. Phila. Pby. No. 461. Received Dec. 4, 

1860, Penn Ch. Died July 7, 1862. 
No. 6. "Wm. O. Johnstone. Phila. Pby. No. 480. Received Dec. 

4, 1860, First Secession Ch., Kensington. Phila. Central Pby. June, 

1870. Died Jan. 16, 1882. D.D. 
No. 7. Henry Steel Clark. Phila. Pby. No. 473. Received Dec. 

4, 1860, Central Ch. Died Jan. 17, 1864. D.D. 



178 ROLL OF 

No. 8. Levi H. Christian. Pliila. Thy. No. 511. Received Dec. 4, 
1860, North Ch. Released Jan. 4, 1864. Died Oct. 23, 1864. D.D. 

No. 9. Nathaniel West. Phila. Pby. No. 525. Received Dec. 4, 
1864, Hestonville Ch. Released July 7, 1862. Died Sept. 2, 1864. 
D.D. 

No. 10. Jonathan Edwards. Phila. Pbj. No. 531. West Arch 
St. Ch. Released March 13, 1866. Dismissed April 2, 1866, Pby. 
Ohio. D.D. 

No. 11. Alfred Nevin. Phila. Pby. No. 532. Received Dec. 4, 

1860, Alexander Ch. Released Jan. 7, 1861. Transferred to Phila. 

Pby. June, 1870. D.D. 
No. 12. Robert M. Patterson. Phila. Pby. No. 533. Received 

Dec. 4, 1860, Great Valley Ch. Released and dismissed June 24, 

1867, Phila. Pby. D.D., LL.D. 
No. 13. Joseph W. Porter. Phila. Pby. No. 551. Received Dec. 

4, 1860, Phoeuixville and Charlestown Chs. Released Jan. 10, 1870. 

Transferred June, 1870, Pby. of Chester. 
No. 14. Morris C. Sutphen. Phila. Pby. No. 558. Received Dec. 

4, 1860, Spring Garden Ch. Released and dismissed April 13, 1866, 

Second Pby. New York. Died June 18, 1875. D.D. 
No. 15. J. Addison Henry. Phila. Pby. No. 559. Ordained and 

installed June 5, 1860. Received Dec. 4, 1860, Princeton Ch. 

Phila. Central Pby. Jan. 1870. D.D. 
No. 16. Walter Forsyth. Received Dec. 5, 1860, as a candidate. 

Licensed April 3, 1861. Dismissed Oct. 7, 1862, Pby. Lake. 

Ordained May 11, 1864. 
No. 17. Matthew Newkirk. Phila. Pby. No. 542. Received and 

licensed Jan. 7, 1861. Dismissed April 2, 1862, Pby. New Castle. 

Received Jan. 11, 1869, Pby. New Castle. Installed Jan. 17, 1869, 

North Tenth Street Ch. Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Pastoral 

relation dissolved May 5, 1873. Installed June 1, 1873, Bethlehem 

Ch. Released Dec. 10, 1883. Installed Sept. 12, 1886, Coll. Pastor 

Bethesda Ch. D.D. 
No. 18. Luther H. Wilson. Received Jan. 7, 1861, Pby. Knox- 

ville. Dismissed July 1, 1861, Pby. Nashville. Ordained Sept. 

29, 1866, by Pby. Flint River. 
No. 19, John D. M. Clintock. Received Jan. 7, 1861, as a can- 
didate. Licensed July 7, 1862. Dismissed July 6, 1863, Pby. of 

Ebenezer. . Ordained April 11, 1864. 
No. 20. Thomas J. Aiken. Received Jan. 7, 1861, as a candidate. 

Licensed April 2, 1867. Dismissed April 12, 1869, Third Pby. 

Phila. Received by Third Pby. Phila. April 13, 1869. Ordained 

and installed April 27, 1869, East Whiteland and Reeseville Chs. 

Transferred June, 1870, Pby. Chester. 
No. 21. George Locker. Phila. Pby. No. 563. Received Jan. 7, 

1861, Pby. Phila. Ordained Feb. 8, 1861. Pastor First German Ch. 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 179 

Dismissed Jan. 15, 1866, Fourth Pby. Phila. Received June, 1870, 

Phila. Central. Died Jan. 24, 1887. 
No. 22. George W. Musgrave. Phila. Pby. No. 246. Received 

pro forma April 3, 1861. Installed Jan. 11, 1863, Penn Ch. (North 

Tenth Street Ch.). Released Oct. 12, 1868. Phila. Central Pby. 

June, 1870. Died Aug. 24, 1882. D.D., LL.D. 
No. 23. James M. Olmstead. Phila. Pby. No. 516. Received 

■pro forma April 3, 1861. Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Died Oct. 

16, 1870. D.D. 
No. 24. "Wm. R. Work. Phila. Pby. No. 550. Received pro forma 

April 3, 1861. Phila. Central June, 1870. Died Dec. 27. 1882. 
No. 25. "Wm. M. Cornell. Phila. Pby. No. 553. Received pro 

forma April 3, 1861. Phila. Central, June, 1870. Dismissed Oct. 

5, 1870. D.D. 
No. 26. "Wm. H. Hodge. Phila. Pby. No. 543. Received and 

licensed April 3, 1861. Ordained and dismissed Jan. 5, 1864, Pby. 

Connecticut. Received April 19, 1870, Pby. Connecticut. Installed 

June 20, 1870, Columbia Avenue Ch. Phila. Central Pby. June, 

1870. 

No. 27. Herman P. W. Reiner. Phila. Pby. No. 547. Received 
April 3, 1861. Name dropped April 4, 1865. 

No. 28. Alfred H. Kellogg. Phila. Pby. No. 561. Received and 
licensed April 3, 1861. Dismissed Oct. 7, 1862, Second Pby. Phila. 
Received by Phila. Central Pby. Sept. 1, 1873. Pby. New York. 
Installed Sept. 15, 1873, Central Ch. Released Oct. 6, 1874. Dis- 
missed March 6, 1882, Pby. Detroit. Received April 3, 1883, Pby. 
Detroit. D.D. 

No. 29. John H. Smaltz. Phila. Pby. No. 399. Received pro 
forma May 6, 1861. Died July 30, 1861. 

No. 30. James Clark. Phila. Pby. No. 306. Received May 6, 

1861, Pby. Northumberland, Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. D.D. 
No. 31. James R. Johnston. Received May 6, 1861, Pby. Hudson. 

Ordained 1825. Died June 16, 1865. 
No. 32. Sheppard K. Kollock. Received May 6, 1861, Pby. 

West Jersey. Ordained June, 1818. Died April 7, 1865. D.D. 
No. 33. Henry S. Blinn. Received May 6, 1861, Pby. Monroe. 

Ordained 1850. Dismissed March 28, 1862, Pby. Albany. 
No. 34. James A. Devine. Received July 1, 1861, Pby. Ogdens- 

burg. Ordained May 10, 1854. Dismissed July 2, 1866, Pby. 

Wooster. 
No. 35. David Kennedy. Received July 1, 1861, Pby. New York. 

Ordained June 5, 1851, by Ref. Pby. Pittsburgh. Installed Oct. 20, 

1862, Richmond Ch. Released Feb. 16, 1866. Dismissed May 18, 
1868, Pby. Erie. Received to Phila. Central Pby. May 5, 1873. 
Dismissed Jan. 4, 1881. Pby. Northumberland. M.D. 



180 KOLL OF 

No. 36. Edward B. Hodge. Received July 1, 1861. Licensed 

April 6, 1863. Dismissed April 4, 1864, Pbj. Burlington. Ordained 

April 23, 1864. 
No. 37. Henry B. Townsend. Phila. Pbj. No. 541. Received 

July 1. 1861. Licensed July 7, 1862. Dismissed April 6, 1863, 2d 

Pby. Phila. Ordained May 5, 1863. 
No. 38. Edward D. Ledyard. Received Sept. 2, 1861. Licensed 

Jan. 7, 1867. Dismissed July 8, 1867, Pby. North River. Ordained 

Aug. 29, 1867. 
No. 39. Alexander M. Jelly. Received Sept. 2, 1861, Pby. Ohio. 

Ordained and installed Sept. 14, 1861, Belmont Ch. Released Nov. 

30, 1863. Installed Richmond Ch. July 12, 1866. Phila. Central 
Pby. June, 1870. Released and dismissed Oct. 4, 1870. Pby. 
Newton. D.D. 

No. 40. Henry P. Lee. Phila. Pby. No. 718. Received Sept. 14, 
1861, 2d Pby. Phila. Ordained April 26, 1860. Dismissed Oct. 2, 

1861, 2d Pby. Phila. 

No. 41. Thomas M. Cunningham. Received Oct. 18, 1861, Pby. 

Chicago. Ordained Oct. 1852. Installed Oct. 31, 1861, Alexander 

Ch. Released July 26, 1869, Pby. California. Died Feb. 22, 1S80. 

D.D. 
No. 42. Ephraim D. Saunders. Phila. Pby. No. 502. Enrolled 

Oct. 31, 1861. Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Died Sept. 13, 

1872. D.D. 
No. 43. Charles H. Ewing. Phila. Pby. No. 508. Enrolled Oct. 

31, 1861. Dismissed April 2, 1862, Pby. Phila. Died March 15, 1885. 
No. 44. William J. Day. Received as a candidate Oct. 31, 1861, 

Pby. Phila. Licensed Jan. 2, 1865. Dismissed July 3, 1865, Pby. 

Luzerne. Ordained Sept. 21, 1865. 
No. 45. Archibald Tudehope. Phila. Pby. No. 352. Enrolled 

Oct. 31, 1861. Died Dec. 6, 1861. 
No. 46. Owen Reidy. Received Nov. 4, 1861. Licensed Jan. 7, 

1862. Name dropped July 4, 1864. 

No. 47. Edward P. Cowan. Received April 2, 1862. Licensed 
April 4, 1864. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1864, Pby. St. Louis. Ordained 
June 7, 1865. D.D. 

No. 48. J. Thompson Osier. Phila. Pby. No. 495. Received 
and licensed April 3, 1862. Ordained April 3, 1865. Dismissed 
Jan. 15, 1866, Pby. Carlisle. 

No. 49. P. Dunleavy Long. Phila. No. 530. Received as a can- 
didate July 7, 1862. Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. 

No. 50. John C. Bliss. Received Oct. 8, 1862. Licensed Oct. 20, 
1862. Dismissed Pby. Carlisle Jan. 5, 1863. D.D. 

No. 51. E. Bailey Smith. Received Oct. 8, 1862. Ordained Aug. 
1858, Baptist Church, Chemung, N. Y. Dismissed April 2, 1866, 
Pby. Connecticut. 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 181 

No. 52. Sketchly Morton Pearce. PMla. Pby. No. 529. Re- 
ceived Oct. 8, 1862. Licensed April 4, 1864. Dismissed April 2, 
1866, Pby. Southern Minn. Ordained April 27, 1866, Pby. Chip- 
pewa. 

No. 53. Robert Procter. Received April 6, 1863, Pby. Rock 
River. Ordained Nov. 7, 1859. Dismissed May 5, 1864, Pby. 
Cayuga. 

No. 54. James H. Marr. Received April 6, 1863. Licensed April 
4, 1864. Dismissed July 13, 1868, Pby. California. Ordained 
March 21, 1868, Pby. San Francisco. Received by Pby. Phila. Cen- 
tral, May 1, 1882. Pby. Morris and Orange. 

No. 55. Arthur "W. Milby. Received July 6, 1863, from M. E. 
Ch. Ordained 1846. Dismissed Nov. 12, 1866, M. E. Ch. 

No. 56. James A. MoGo^wan. Received Sept. 4, 1863. Licensed 
April 2, 1867. Dismissed July 13, 1868, Pby. St. Paul. Ordained 
Sept. 15, 1869. 

No. 57. Benjamin A. Dean. Received Oct. 5, 1863. Licensed 
April 4, 1864. Ordained in Cong. Ch. July 20, 1866. 

No. 58. G. Wilson McPhail. Received Oct. 23, 1863, 2d Pby. 
Phila. Ordained 1838, Pby. East Hanover. Dismissed Oct. 4, 
1866, Pby. East Hanover. D.D. 

No. 59. Ambrose C. Smith. Received Nov. 20, 1863, Pby. Don- 
egal. Licensed April 4, 1864. Dismissed Jan. 1, 1866, Pby. Car- 
lisle. Ordained Jan. 18, 1867, Pby. Rock River. D.D. 

No. 60. John Peacock. Received Jan. 5, 1864. Licensed April 
4, 1870. Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Dismissed April 4, 1871, 
Pby. Phila. North. Ordained April 28, 1871. 

No. 61. Robert A. Davison. Jan. 5, 1864, Pby. St. Louis. Li- 
censed April 5, 1864. Dismissed May 1, 1865, Pby. Hudson. Or- 
dained May 16, 1865. 

No. 62. Sylvanus Sayre. Received April 4, 1864. Licensed 
April 2, 1866. Ordained May 7, 1866. Phila. Central Pby. June, 
1870. Dismissed Dec. 6, 1880, Pby. Allegheny. 

No. 63. John Swing. Received April 20, 1864, Pby. Ohio. Or- 
dained Dec. 24, 1861. Installed May 2, 1864, Trinity Ch. Released 
and dismissed Sept. 27, 1869, Pby. Raritan. D.D. 

No. 64. John Moore. Received July 4, 1864, Pby. Huntingdon. 
Ordained Dec. 24, 1861, Pby. Ohio. Dismissed Oct. 11, 1869, 2d 
Pby. Phila. 

No. 65. Robert W. Henry. Received Oct. 3, 1864, Pby. New 
York. Installed Oct. 12, 1864, North Ch. Died Oct. 8, 1869. D.D. 

No. 66. Alexander Reed. Received Nov. 28, 1864, Pby. New Cas- 
tle. Installed Dec. 11, 1864, Central Ch. Phila. Central Pby. June, 
1870. Released and dismissed June 2, 1873, Pby. Brooklyn. Died 
Nov. 17, 1878. D.D. 
il3) 



182 ROLL OF 

No. 67. Alfred Taylor. Received April 3, 1865, 2d Pby. Pliila. 
Dismissed April 4, 1870, Pby. Nassau. 

No. 68. John Sparhawk Jones. Received July 3, 1865. Li- 
censed April 2, 1866, Phila. Central June, 1870. Dismissed Oct. 5, 
1870, Pby. Baltimore. Ordained Jan. 10, 1871. D.D. 

No. 69. "Wm. S. Steen. Received July 3, 1865. Licensed Oct. 1, 
1866. Philada. Central. Pby. June, 1870. Dismissed May 2, 1881, 
Pby. Lackawanna. 

No. 70. Elias R. Beadle. Received Nov. 6, 1865, Pby. Rochester. 
Installed Nov. 12, 1865, Second Ch. Transferred with Second Ch. 
Oct. 1868 to Pby. Phila. Pby. Phila. No. 598. Died Jan. 6, 1879. 
D.D. 

No. 71. Henry R. Hall. Received Jan. 1, 1866, Pby. Lewes. Li- 
censed Jan. 13, 1868. Dismissed Oct. 12, 1868, Pby. Huntingdon. 

No. 72. Alexander Scott. Received April 2, 1866, Pby. Califor- 
nia. Philada. Central June, 1870. 

No. 73. John P. Conkey. Received April 2, 1866. Dismissed 
Dec. 5, 1867, Pby. Northumberland, Phila. Pby. North. Ordained 
Nov. 25, 1858. D.D. 

No. 74. Edward P. Heberton. Received April 2, 1866. Licensed 
Oct. 14, 1867. Ordained and installed April 13, 1868. Transferred 
June, 1870, Pby. Chester. Received to Phila. Central Pby. Sept. 6, 
1880, Pby. West Jersey. Installed March 15, 1881, Kenderton Ch. 
Released Oct. 3, 1882. Died March 7, 1883. 

No. 75. David A. Cunningham. Phila. Pby. No. 579. Received 
June 5, 1866, Pby. Phila. Installed June 20, 1866, Spring Garden 
Ch., Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Released April 13, 1876. 
Dismissed Sept. 4, 1876, Pby. Washington. D.D. 

No. 76. Wm. "W. Heberton. Received July 2, 1866. Licensed 
April 12, 1869. Dismissed July 26, 1869. Pby. New Castle. Phila. 
Pby. No. 747. 

No. 77. John Lyon. Received Oct. 1, 1866, Pby. Carlisle. Phila. 
Central Pby. June, 1870. 

No. 78. James Sinclair. Received Oct. 15, 1866. Deposed April 
4, 1870. 

No. 79. Samuel A. Mutchmore. Received Jan. 7, 1867, Pby. St. 
Louis. Installed Jan. 17, 1867, Cohocksink Ch., Phila. Central 
Pby. June, 1870. Released May 7, 1872. Installed Oct. 13, 1872, 
Alexander Ch. Released Jan. 4, 1881. Installed Nov. 9, 1882, 
Memorial Ch. D.D. 

No. 80. Edward P. Capp. Philada. Pby. No. 522. Received 
Jan. 7, 1867, Pby. Phila. Licensed July 4, 1868. Ordained and 
dismissed April 19, 1869, Pby. Shantung, China. Died Yokohama, 
Japan, Oct. 26, 1873. 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 183 

No. 81. Alfred Paull. Received April 1, 1867, Pby. Washington. 
Ordained April 17, 1850. Installed Feb. 7, 1869, Hestonville Ch., 
Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Died Nov. 1872. 

No. 82. James Gray Bolton. Received April 2, 1867, Phila. Cen- 
tral, June, 1870. Dismissed Sept. 15, 1873, Pby. Phila. Phila. Pby. 
No. 652. 

No. 83. Wm. Speer. Received April 2, 1867, Pby. Southern Min- 
nesota. Phila. Central, June, 1870, Dismissed Sept. 2, 1878, Pby. 
Washington. D.D, 

No. 84. Edward M. Long. Received April 8, 1867, Grer. Ref. 

Classis, Phila. Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. 
No. 85. Alphonso A. "Willets. Received May 29, 1867, North 

Classis, Long Island. Installed June 2, 1867, West Arch St. Ch. 

Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870i Released Oct. 5, 1880. Dismissed 

Jan. 8, 1883, Pby. Louisville. D.D. 

No. 86. Caspar Rene Gregory. Received July 8, 1867. Licensed 
April 12, 1869. Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Name dropped 
Feb. 7, 1881. 

No. 87. Edward Dillon. Received Jan. 13, 1868. Transferred to 
Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Dismissed April 25, 1876, Pby. 
Cayuga. 

No. 88. H. B. Lambe. Received Jan. 13, 1868, Pby. Warren. 
Name struck from roll Jan. 18, 1869. 

No. 89. John V7. Schenok. Received Jan. 13, 1868, Ref. Classis, 
Phila. Dismissed Sept. 21, 1868, Third Pby. Phila. Installed by 
Third Pby. Phila. Oct. 27, 1868, Potts ville First Ch. Transferred 
June, 1870, Pby. Lehigh. 

No. 90. Nathaniel I. Rubinkam. Received July 13, 1868. Phila. 
Central Pby. June, 1870. Licensed May 10, 1877. Dismissed Feb. 
4, 1878. Ordained 1878. 

No. 91. George W. Burroughs. Received Oct. 12, 1868, Pby. Nas- 
sau. Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Dismissed Sept. 15, 1873, 
Pby. Elizabeth. Received April 25, 1876, Pby. Elizabeth. M.D. 

No. 92. Robert A. Brown. Phila. Pby. No. 467. Received Oct. 
26, 1868, Pby. Donegal. Installed May 15, 1870, Trinity Ch., 
Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Released April 2, 1873. Died 
Nov. 21, 1875. 

No. 93. Wm. A. Page. Received April 12, 1869, Pby. Ithaca. 

No. 94. Wm. W. M'Nair. Received Oct. 11, 1869, Pby. Chip- 
pewa. Ordained May 17, 1849, Pby. New Brunswick. Dismissed 
June 30, 1870, Pby. West Jersey. 

No. 95. Augustus P. Volmer. Received Sept. 2, 1868. Phila. 
Central Pby. June, 1870. Licensed April 4, 1871. Name removed 
from roll Oct. 3, 1871. 



184 ROLL OF 

No. 96. "Wm. P. Patterson. Received Oct. 29, 1869. Phila. Cen- 
tral Pbj. June, 1870. Dismissed July 11, 1871, Pby. Phila. Phila. 
Pby. No. 636. 

No. 97. Clarence Geddes. Received Jan. 10, 1870. Phila. Cen- 
tral Pby. Jnue, 1870. Licensed April 2, 1872. Dismissed Nov. 4, 
1872, Pby. New York. 

No. 98. George F. Cain. Received April 19, 1870, Pby. Erie. 
Installed May 9, 1870, Alexander Ch. Phila. Central Pby. June, 
1870. Released April 4, 1871. Dismissed July 11, 187*1, Pby. 
Dayton. 

No. 99. Benjamin L. Agne"w. Phila. Pby. No. 596. Received 
May 16, 1870, Pby. Phila. Installed May 22, 1870, North Ch. 
Phila. Central Pby. June, 1870. Released and dismissed Dec. 1, 
1883, Pby. Pittsburgh. Received May 5, 1884, Pby. Pittsburgh. 
Installed May 12, 1884, Bethlehem Ch. D.D. 

No. 100. John R. Thompson. Received as a foreign Minister on 
probation June 20, 1870, Pby. Halifax. Transferred June, 1870, 
Pby. Oregon. 



PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL PRESBYTERY. 

At the reunion, June, 1870, the Philadelphia Central Pres- 
bytery was constituted, to consist of the ministers and churches 
in the city and county of Philadelphia, between the centre of 
Market Street and the centre of Allegheny Avenue, and the 
Delaware River and the western line of the city. It became 
the legal successor of the Central Presbytery of Philadelphia 
and of the Presbytery of Philadelphia Third. 

No. 101. Michael Burdett. Received to Third Pby. Phila. Oct. 
1858, from Harmony Asso. Mass. Installed 1859, Darby Second 
Ch. Released Jan. 29, 1862. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Cen- 
tral Pby. 

No. 102. Peter Parker. Received to Second Pby. Phila. (Assem- 
bly's), May 14. 1834. New Haven Cong. Asso. Ordained May 16, 
1834, Missionary to China. Transferred June 9, 1836, Third Pby. 
Phila. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. M.D. 

No. 103. John McClusky. Phila. Pby. No. 227. Received June 
23, 1870, Second Pby. Phila. Died March 31, 1880. D.D. 

No. 104. Jeremiah Miller. Received June 23, 1870, Pby. Harris- 
burg. Died July, 1871. 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 185 

No. 105. Wm. "W. Taylor. Phila. Pby. No. 660. Received to 
Third Pbj. Phila., Oct. 31, 1861. Installed No\r. 3, 1861, Olivet 
Ch. Transferred June 23, 1870, with Olivet Ch. Pastoral relation 
dissolved May 15, 1871. Dismissed April 2, 1872, Pby. Carlisle. 

No. 106. Leeds K. Berridge. Received to Third Pby. Phila. 
April 12, 1854, Methodist Epis. Ch. Dismissed April 8, 1856, Pby. 
Wilmington. Received Dec. 16, 1862, Pby. Harrisburg. Trans- 
ferred June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. 

No. 107. Thomas J. Shepherd. Received by Fourth Pby. Phila. 
Oct. 6, 1852, Pby. Dist. Columbia. Ordained Oct. 5, 1843. Installed 
Nov. 2, 1852, N. L. First Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. 
Central Pby. Pastoral relation dissolved June 6, 1881. Pastor 
Emeritus. D.D. 

No. 108. Samuel Fulton. Received June 23, 1870, Phila. Second 
Pby. Dismissed Oct. 1, 1872, Pby. Chester. 

No. 109. Charles E. Ford. Received June 23, 1870, Pby. West 
Jersey. 

No. 110. Charles F. Diver. Received as a candidate April 15, 
1840, by Phila. Third Pby. Licensed April 14, 1842. Dismissed 
Oct. 24, 1842, Pby. Dist. Columbia. Received Dec. 4, 1842, Pby. 
Dist. Columbia. Ordained and installed Oct. 22, 1844, Norriton 
and Providence Chs. Released Oct. 7, 1846. Dismissed Pby. Har- 
risburg. Received by Phila. Fourth Pby. Oct. 6, 1852. Installed 
Oct. 13, 1852, Cedarville Ch. Released Dec. 24, 1860. Transferred 
June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. Died Oct. 14, 1884. 

No. 111. George F. Wiswell. Received by Phila. Third Pby. 
May 9, 1867, from Pby. Wilmington. Installed May 9, 1867, Green 
Hill Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. Released 
Oct. 6, 1885. D.D. 

No. 112. "Wm. T. Eva. Received by Phila. Fourth Pby. Nov. 5, 
1860, Pby. Newark, and installed pastor Kensington First Ch. 
Released Nov. 12, 1867. Installed Feb. 12, 1868, Bethesda Ch. 
Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. D.D. 

No. 113. Peter Stryker. Received April 14, 1868, Classis New 
York. Installed May 14, 1868, North Broad St. Ch. Transferred 
June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. Released and dismissed Oct. 4, 
1870, Pby. Utica. D.D. 

No. 114. John W. Mears. Received by Phila. Fourth Pby. as a 
licentiate Oct, 9, 1850, Western Dist. Asso. New Haven. Ordained 
and installed April 15, 1852, Central Ch., Camden, N. J. Released 
and dismissed Jan. 19, 1854, Pby. Wilmington. Received by Phila. 
Third Pby. Oct. 16, 1867. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central 
Pby. Dismissed Sept. 4, 1871, Pby. Utica. Died Nov. 10, 1881. 
D.D. 

No. 115. John Moore. Phila. No. 578. Received June 23, 1870, 
Phila. Pby. Dismissed Nov. 10, 1873, Pby. Brooklyn. 



186 ROLL OF 

No. 116. "Wm. Ottinger. Received by Phila. 3d Pby. April 12, 

1842. Licensed Oct. 3, 1844. Ordained Oct. 8, 1845. Transferred 
to Phila. 4tli Pby. Oct. 23, 1845. Dismissed April 16, 1848, Vine- 
land Sand Ass., Mass. Received by Phila. 3d Pby. Oct. 7, 1862, 
Pby. Des Moines. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. 
Dismissed May 6, 1874, Pby. Phila. North. 

No. 117. Epaminondas J. Pierce. Received by Phila. 4th Pby. 

April 10, 1850. Licensed April 12, 1850. Ordained April 20, 1851. 
Dismissed Oct. 19, 1855, Phila. 3d Pby. Transferred June, 1870, 
Phila. Central Pby. Dismissed April 2, 1872, Pby. Monmouth. 

No. 118. Francis Hendricks. Received by Phila. 4th Pby. Oct. 
13, 1863, Pby. Wilmington. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central 
Pby. Installed Feb. 18, 1872, Mantua 2d Ch. Released Jan. 6, 
1874. 

No. 119. George "W. Cox. Received by Phila. 4th Pby. April 12, 
1859, as an Independent Minister. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. 
Central Pby. 

No. 120. James Y. Mitchell. Phila. Pby. No. 494. Ordained 
July 14, 1854. Received by Phila. 4th Pby. Oct. 15, 1862, Pby. 
Newton. Installed Oct. 22, 1862, N. L. Central (Temple) Ch. 
Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. Released and dis- 
missed June 22, 1876, Pby. Westminster. D.D. 

No. 121. Joseph P. Jennison. Phila. Pby. No. 528. Received 
June 23, 1870, Phila. 2d Pby. Dismissed May 1, 1871, Pby. Bos- 
ton. 

No. 122. Henry A. Smith. Received by Phila. 3d Pby. and li- 
censed Oct. 29, 1857. Ordained Nov. 4, 1858. Installed July 31, 
1864, Mantua 1st (Northminster) Ch. Transferred June, 1870, to 
Phila. Central Pby. Released June 5, 1882. Died May 7, 1883. 
D.D. 

No. 123. Prancis L. Robbins. Received by Phila. 3d Pby. April 
26, 1860, Main Conference, Ohio. Installed April 29, 1860, Green Hill 
Ch. Released and transferred April 9, 1867, Phila. 4th Pby. In- 
stalled May 5, 1867, Oxford Ch. Transferred June. 1870, Phila. 
Central Pby. Released Sept. 13, 1883. Beacon Ch. D.D. 

No. 124. J. Hervey Beale. Received by Phila. 3d Pby. Jan. 29, 
1862, Pby. New York. Ordained Jan. 29, 1862. Dismissed Feb. 
10, 1868, Phila. 4th Pby. Installed March 10, 1868, Kensington 
First Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. 

No. 125. William B. Cullis. Phila. Pby. No. 686. Received by 
Phila. 4th Pby. April 15, 1868, as a minister from M. E. Ch. 
Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central Pby. Dismissed April 5, 
1871, Pby. Lackawanna. Received Dec. 15, 1873, Pby. Lacka- 
wanna. Installed Dec. 30, 1873, North Tenth St. Ch. Released 
Nov. 23, 1874. Dismissed Jan. 4, 1881, Pby. Phila. 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 187 

No. 126. John L. Withrow. Phila. Pby. No. 595. Received 
June 23, 1870, Pby. Phila. Installed Dec. 27, 1868, Arch St. Ch. 
Released and dismissed Sept. 22, 1873, Pby. Indianapolis. Received 
April 2, 1878, Pby. Indianapolis. Dismissed Cong. Asso. Boston, 
Mass. D.D. 

No. 127. Martin P. Jones. Received by Phila. 4th Pby. as a can- 
didate May 13, 1864. Licensed May 16, 1864. Dismissed April 
11, 1865, Phila. 3d Pby. Ordained and installed April 12, 1866, 
Chester City Ch. Released Dec. 29, 1868. Transferred .June, 1870, 
Phila. Central Pby. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1871, Pby. Highland. 

No. 128. Thomas J. Bro'wn. Received by Phila. Third Pby. May 

18, 1868, Third Pby. New York. Ordained and installed June 9, 
1868, Logan Square Ch. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central 
Pby. Released and dismissed July 11, 1871, Pby. Utica. D.D. 

No. 129. Wm. McDufFee. Received as a candidate by Phila. 

Third Pby. Jan. 8, 1869. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central 

Pby. Reported dead July 7, 1874. 
No. 130. Gerald P. Dale. Phila. Pby. No. 632. Received as a 

candidate by Phila. Third Pby. April 13, 1870. Transferred June, 

1870, Phila. Central Pby. Dismissed March 6, 1871, Phila. Pby. 
Missionary to Syria. Died Oct. 6, 1886. 

No. 131. Charles B. Austin. Received by Phila. Fourth Pby. as 
a candidate Oct. 13, 1864. Transferred June, 1870, Phila. Central 
Pby. Licensed April 2, 1872. Dismissed Nov. 4, 1872, Pby. 
Steuben. 

No. 132. Charles Bransby. Received Oct. 4, 1870. Licensed May 
10, 1877. Dismissed Oct. 1, 1878, Pby. St. Louis. 

No. 133. George H. S. Campbell. Received Feb. 6, 1871, Pby, 
Edinburgh Free Ch., Scotland. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1871, Pby. West 
Jersey. Received Dec. 6, 1880, Pby. Chester. Installed Dec. 16, 
1880, Richmond Ch. 

No. 134. Ed-ward W. Long. Received as a candidate April 4, 

1871. Dismissed Dec. 6, 1880, Pby. Morris and Orange. 

No. 135. Robert D. Harper. Received April 4, 1871, Pby. In- 
dianapolis. Installed April 23, 1871, North Broad St. Ch. D.D. 

No. 136. Peter Q. Wilson. Received Oct. 3, 1871, Pby. Syracuse. 
Dismissed June 26, 1882, Pby. Otsego. 

No. 137. Henry J. Owen. Received Oct. 9, 1871, Pby. Westches- 
ter. Ordained and installed Oct. 16, 1871, Richmond Ch. Released 
Nov. 2, 1876. Died March 31, 1878. 

No. 138. Addison V. C. Sohenck. Received by act of Synod Oct. 

19, 1871, with Kenderton Ch. Released Oct. 7, 1879. Dismissed 
April 3, 1883, Pby. Lake Superior. D.D. 

No. 139. Isaac A. Cornelison. Received Feb. 5, 1872, Pby. 
Peoria. Ordained Sept. 19, 1855. Dismissed April 1, 1873, Pby. 
Peoria. 



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No. 140. Charles P. Thomas. Received April 2, 1872, Cincinnati 

Conference M. E. Cli. Dismissed April 1, 1873, Pby. Chester. 

Received May 6, 1878, Pby. Chester. Installed Oct. 11, 1878, 

Northwestern Ch. Released Oct. 7, 1879. 
No. 141. Donald K. Campbell. Received as a licentiate April 22, 

1872, Pby. New Brunswick. S, S., Hestonville Ch. Dismissed Oct. 

1, 1872, Pby. Baltimore. 
No. 142. John W. Campbell. Received as a candidate July 2, 

1872. Dismissed April 15, 1873, Pby. Baltimore. 
No. 143. Wm. B. Reed. Received Oct. 1, 1872. Licensed April 

7, 1874. Ordained and dismissed May 6, 1874, Pby. Wyoming. 

Received Nov. 4, 187S, Pby. Chester. Dismissed Jan. 7, 1879, Pby. 

Westminster. 

No. 144. "Wm. Travis. Received as a licentiate April 2, 1872. 
Dismissed Oct. 7, 1873, Pby. Phila. North. Ordained Nov. 1, 1877. 

No. 145. Wm. Greenough. Received Feb. 10, 1873, Pby. Pitts- 
burgh. Installed Feb. 23, 1873, Cohocksink Ch. 

No. 146. Abraham Poulson. Received April 1, 1873, Pby. Fort 
Wayne. Dismissed Jan. 4, 1881, Pby. Baltimore. 

No. 147. Cochran Forbes. Phila. Pby. No. 260. Received April 
1, 1873, Pby. Phila. Died Nov. 5, 1880. 

No. 148. Wm. J. Wright. Received April 1, 1873, Pby. Athens. 
Dismissed Jan. 10, 1882, Pby. Morris and Orange. 

No. 149. Andrew M'Elwain. Received April 15, 1873, Pby. Kit- 
tanning. Installed April 27, 1873, Hestonville Ch. Released Oct. 
5, 1880. D.D. 

No. 150. James A. Marshall. Received May 5, 1873, Pby. Blairs- 
ville. Installed May, 1873, Gleo. Chandler Ch. Released June 24, 
1878. Dismissed Sept. 2, 1878, Pby. Chester. 

No. 151. Robert Graham. Received Sept, 1, 1873, Ref. Pby. Ch. 
N. America. Dismissed Sept. 8, 1874, Pby. New Castle. Received 
Dec. 8, 1883, Pby. New Castle. Installed March 20, 1884, Hebron Ch. 

No. 152. Andrew Lees. Received Sept. 1, 1873, Pby. San Fran- 
cisco. Licensed July 7, 1874. Dismissed July 6, 1875, Pby. Ches- 
ter. Ordained July 8, 1865. Received Nov. 5, 1876, Pby. Chester. 
Installed Feb. 20, 1882, Trinity Ch. Released and dismissed April 
3, 1883, Pby. London, Eng. Received April 3, 1888, Pby. London, 
Eng. 

No. 153. George B. Peck. Received as a licentiate Oct. 3, 1873. 
Dismissed April 6, 1875, Pby. Cincinnati. 

No. 154. Charles A. Smith. Received Nov. 10, 1873, Pby. Morris 
and Orange. Died Feb. 15, 1879. D.D. 

No. 155. Benjamin B. Parsons. Pby. Phila. No. 611. Received 
Nov. 10, 1873, Pby. Phila. Installed Nov. 28. 1873, Trinity Ch. 
Released May 25, 1881. Died Feb. 25, 1887. D.D. 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 189 

No. 156. Charles Wadsworth. Pby. Phila. No. 442. Received 
Nov. 17, 1873, Ref. Ch. Dismissed Dec. 2, 1878, Pby. Pliila. Died 
April 2, 1882. D.D. 

No. 157. "Walter Q. Scott. Received as a licentiate Feb. 2, 1874, 
Pby. Lehigb. Ordained and installed Feb. 15, 1874, Arch St. Ch. 
Released Sept. 11, 1878. D.D. 

No. 158. Daniel F. Lockerby. Received May 4, 1874, Pby. New- 
ton. Ordained July 18, 1869. Installed Oct. 11, 1875, Lehigh Ave. 
Ch. Released March 20, 1 876. Name struck from roll April 4, 1876. 

No. 159. James M. Thompson. Received May 6, 1874, Pby. New 
York. Installed May 7, 1874, Mantua Second Ch. Released Dec. 
2, 1882. Dismissed Jan. 4, 1887, Pby. San Francisco. 

No. 160. John Moore. Received June 8, 1874, Pby. Blairsville. 
Dismissed Oct. 3, 1876, Pby. Winona. 

No. 161. Alexander Sinclair. Received Oct. 6, 1874, Pby. Erie. 
Dismissed Sept. 4, 1876, Pby. Mechlenburg. 

No. 162. Henry A. MacKubbin. Received as a candidate Oct. 6, 
1874. Dismissed March 6, 1882, Pby. Phila. North. 

No. 163. Thomas L. Janeway. Phila. Pby. No. 226. Received 
Nov. 10, 1874, Pby. New Brunswick. D.D. 

No. 164. David J. Waller. Received as a licentiate Nov. 10, 1874, 
Pby. Northumberland. Ordained and installed Nov. 30, 1874. 
Logan Square Ch. Released Dec. 6, 1875. Dismissed Sept. 4, 
1876, Pby. Huntingdon. 

No. 165. John H. Munro. Received Feb. 2, 1875, Pby. Boston. 
Installed Feb. 8, 1875, Central Ch. D.D. 

No. 166. Silas W. Gossler. Received as a candidate Feb. 2, 1875. 
Licensed Oct. 5, 1875. Ordained and installed April 13, 1876, N. 
10th St. Ch. Died Oct. 29, 1880. 

No. 167. Henry. Birchby. Received as a candidate May 11, 1875. 
Licensed April 8, 1884. Dismissed Oct. 7, 1884, Pby. St. Paul. 

No. 168. Daniel Macfie. Received Feb. 14, 1876, Pby. Carlisle. 
Dismissed June 28, 1876, Pby. San Francisco. 

No. 169. David Chapman. Received March 20, 1876, Pby. Ayre, 
Scotland. Dismissed April 3, 1877, Pby. Waterloo. 

No. 170. Edwin H. Nevin. Phila. Pby. No. 316. Received June 
22, 1876, German Ref. Ch., Phila. Classis. D.D. 

No. 171. Daniel W. Poor. Received Nov. 20, 1876, Pby. San Fran- 
cisco. Dismissed Jan. 6, 1885, Pby. Phila. Sec. Bd. Education. 
D.D. 

No. 172. Joshua L. Russell. Received Nov. 24, 1876, Pby. Day- 
ton. Ordained Aug. 17, 1867, by Pby. Miami. Installed Dec. 21, 
1876, Spring Garden Ch. Released Nov. 6, 1882. Dismissed March 
5, 1883, Pby. Huntingdon. 

No. 173. Charles Bonnekemper. Received April 3, 1875, Germ. 
Ref. Ch. Dismissed Dec. 6, 1880, Pby. Cedar Rapids. 



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No. 174. Henry Losch. Received April 3, 1877, Ref. Ch. Name 

struck from roll Dec. 1, 1879. 
No. 175. "Walter Nicholas. Received April 3, 1877, Pbj. Newark. 

Ordained and installed May 10, 1877, Temple Ch. Released and 

dismissed June 28, 1880, Pby. Albany. 
No. 176. John P. Yoth. Received May 10, 1877, Pby. Waterloo. 

Dismissed April 2, 1878, Pby. Chester. 

No. 177. Thomas M. Watson. Received July 3, 1877, U. P. Pby. 
Phila. Dismissed Sept. 2, 1878, Pby. Shenango. 

No. 178. Luigi De Jesi. Received as a candidate July 3, 1877. 
Licensed June 3, 1878. Ordained Oct. 17, 1880. Dismissed April 

4, 1882, Pby. Mexico. 

No. 179. Macduff Simpson. Received Nov. 5, 1877, Pby. Lexing- 
ton. Installed Nov. 21, 1878, Richmond Ch. Released and dis- 
missed Oct. 18, 1880, Pby. Dublin, Ireland. 

No. 180. Wm. C. Rommel. Received Nov. 5, 1877, Pby. Montana. 
Ordained June 20, 1872, Pby. Elizabeth. Installed Nov. 15, 1877, 
Gaston Ch. 

No. 181. Charles E. Burns. Received Feb. 4, 1878, Pby. New- 
ton. Installed Feb. 21, 1878, Lehigh Ave. Ch. Released and dis- 
missed Oct. 1, 1878, Pby. Phila. North. 

No. 182. John Richelson. Received Feb. 4, 1878, Pby. Morris 
and Orange. Installed Feb. 19, 1878, Second German Ch. 

No. 183. Edward K. Donaldson. Received Sept. 2, 1878. Li- 
censed June 28, 1880. Ordained March 17, 1881. Dismissed April 

5, 1881, Pby. Monmouth. 

No. 184. Edwin B. Rafifensperger. Received Oct. 1, 1878, Pby. 

Baltimore. Ordained May 4, 1853. Dismissed Jan. 10, 1882, Pby. 

Marion. Died March 27, 1885. D.D. 
No. 185. DuflBeld Ashmead. Received April 1, 1879. Licensed 

June 28, 1880. 
No. 186. Elisha B. Cleghorn. Phila. Pby. No. 472. Received 

June 30, 1879, Pby. Albany. Died Dec. 14, 1881. 
No. 187. Joseph S. Malone. Received Oct. 7, 1879, Ref. Ep. Ch. 

Installed Nov. 14, 1879, Northwestern Ch. Released April 4, 1882. 

Dismissed April 3, 1883, Pby. New Castle. 
No. 188. Edwin D. Newberry. Received Nov. 3, 1879, Pby 

West Jersey. Dismissed Feb. 4, 1884, Pby. Phila. Phila. Pby. 

No. 717. 
No. 189. Matthew Anderson. Received May 3, 1880, Pby. Car- 
lisle. Installed July 11, 1880, Berean Ch. 
No. 190. Clement C. Dickey. Received May 10, 1880, Pby. 

Chester. Ordained by Pby. Brooklyn, Nov. 9, 1871. Installed May 

17, 1880, Sixty-third Street (Patterson Mem.) Ch. Released June 

28, 1887. 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 191 

No. 191. George A. Paul. Received June 7, 1880. Licensed June 
5, 1882. Dismissed Oct. 3, 1882, Pby. New Castle. 

No. 192. Daniel C. Meeker. Received June 28, 1880, Pby. Car- 
lisle. Died Feb. 18, 1881. 

No. 193. Henry J. Weber. Received Sept. 6, 1880, Pby. Newark. 

Installed April 28, 1881, Carmel Ch. Released and dismissed March 

2, 1885, Pby. Phila. 
No. 194. Eugene C. Olney. Received Sept. 6, 1880, Pby. Grand 

Rapids. Dismissed Feb. 7, 1881, Pby. Newton. 
No. 195. John S. Sands. Received Sept. 6, 1880, U. P. Pby. 

Monongahela. Installed Sept. 19, 1880, Arch St. Ch. D.D. 
No. 196. Gordon Mackay. Received as a candidate Sept. 6, 1880. 

Dismissed Oct. 6, 1885, Pby. New York. 
No. 197. Emil Leute. Received as a candidate Sept. 6, 1880. 
No. 198. James H. Baird. Phila. Pby. No. 571. Received Nov. 

1, 1880, Pby. Huntingdon. Dismissed April 7, 1885. Pby. West 

Virginia. 
No. 199. Henry D. Northrup. Received Feb. 7, 1881, Pby. New 

York. Installed Feb. 23, 1881, North Tenth Street Ch. Released 

June 24, 1886. Dismissed April, 1887, Pby. Chester. 
No. 200. "Wm. Dayton Roberts. Received March 7, 1881, Pby. 

Phila. North. Ordained June 7, 1876. Installed March 15, 1881, 

Temple Ch. D.D. 
No. 201. J. Henry Sharpe. Phila. Pby. No. 627. Received Mar. 

7, 1881. Installed April 1, 1881, Hestonville (Park Avenue) Ch. 

D.D. 
No. 202. Edward M. Haymaker. Received as a candidate April 

5, 1881. Licensed April 8, 1884. Ordained May 16, 1884. Dis- 
missed Feb. 2, 1885, Pby. Zacatecas. 

No. 203. Melancthon W. Jacobus. Received May 2, 1881. Li- 
censed June 28, 1881. Dismissed Oct. 7, 1884, Pby. Chester. 
No. 204. Ales. G. McAuley. Received with York St. Ch. June 

6, 1881, Ref. Pby. Phila. D.D. 

No. 205. Marcus A. Brownson. Received as a licentiate Jan. 10, 

1882, from Pby. of Washington. Dismissed March 5, 1883, Pby. 

New Castle. 
No. 206. William V. Louderbough. Received March 6, 1882, 

Pby. of New Castle. Ordained Sept. 24, 1879. Installed March 

14, 1882, N. L. 1st Ch. Released and dismissed Nov. 5, 1883, 

Pby. of West Jersey. 
No. 207. John W. Bain. Received April 4, 1882, First N. P. Pby. 

Ohio. Installed April 11, 1882, Alexander Ch. Released Jan. 30, 

1885. Dismissed Jan. 7, 1886, Pby. Huntingdon. 



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No. 208. Richard T. Jones. Received as a licentiate April 4, 1882, 
Pby. Northern Penna. Welsh Pres. Ch. Ordained and installed 
June 8, 1882, Lehigh Ave. (Susquehanna Ave.) Ch. 

No. 209. James R. Campbell. Received May 1, 1882, Pbj. West 
Jersey. Dismissed April 1, 1884, Pby. New Castle. 

No. 210. Samuel Phillips. Received May 1, 1882, Pby. Phila. 
North. Dismissed April 3, 1883, Pby. Chester. 

No. 211. Francis M. Baker. Received May 1, 1882, Central Penna. 
Conference Evan. Asso. 

No. 212. James Stewart Dickson. Phila. Pby. No. 745. Re- 
ceived May 1, 1882. Licensed and dismissed June 4, 1883, Pby. 
New Brunswick. Ordained 1883. 

No. 213. Jacob "W. Loch. Ordained and installed May 11, 1882, 
Zion Germ. Ch. Released Feb. 1, 1886. Dismissed April 6, 1886, 
Lutheran Ministerium, New York City. 

No. 214. "William S. Thompson. Received June 25, 1882, Pby. 
Portsmouth. Dismissed Dec. 4, 1882, Pby. Phila. Phila. Pby. 
No. 

No. 215. "Waldo Messaros. Received as a candidate Oct. 3, 1882. 
Name dropped March 5, 1883. 

No. 216. Otto Close. Received as a candidate Nov. 6, 1882. 

No. 217. Samuel M. Gould. Received May 7, 1883, Pby. Phila. 
North. 

No. 218. Samuel A. Harlow. Received May 7, 1883, Pby. Brook- 
lyn. Installed May 17, 1883, Mantua 2d Ch. Released June 1, 
1885. Dismissed Feb. 21, 1887, Manhattan Cong. Asso. 

No. 219. Mangasar Mangasarian. Received as a foreign minister 
on probation, Dec. 4, 1882. To full membership, Dec. 3, 1883. 
Installed Dec. 7, 1883, Spring Garden Ch. Pastoral relation dis- 
solved and name dropped Oct. 12, 1885. 

No. 220. Charles A. Schmidt. Received as a candidate Dec. 4, 
1882. 

No. 221. Carl Theo. Albrecht. Received Dec. 4, 1882. Licensed 
and dismissed June 25, 1883, Pby. Elizabeth. 

No. 222. John Hemphill. Received Jan. 9, 1883, Pby. San Fran- 
cisco. Installed Feb. 15, 1883, West Arch St. Ch. D.D. 

No. 223. Thomas Verner Moore. Received Jan. 9, 1883. Licensed 
Feb. 5, 1883. Dismissed April 3, 1883, Pby. Montana. 

No. 224. Martin L. Ross. Received March 5, 1883, Pby. North- 
umberland. Dismissed Nov. 5, 1883, Pby. Phila. Phila. Pby. No. 
713. 

No. 225. John McBlmoyle. Received April 3, 1883, Pby. West- 
minster. Ordained April 23, 1879. Installed Sept. 20, 1883, Ken- 
derton (Tioga) Ch. 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 193 

No. 226. George Van Deurs. Received by Phila. 3d Pby. Oct. 
1858, Pby. Bath. Dismissed Dec. 1867, Pby. Troy. Received May 
7, 1883, Pby, New York. 

No. 227. Robert H. Fulton. Received June 4, 1883, Pby. Balti- 
more. Installed June 12, 1883, Northminster Cli. D.D. 

No. 228. Robert Hunter. Received Sept. 3, 1883, Ref. Pby. Phila. 
Installed Sept. 13, 1883, Kensington Ch. 

No. 229. William Bannard. Received Oct. 2, 1883, Pby. West 
Jersey. D.D. 

No. 230. James D. Shanks. Received Jan. 8, 1884, Pby. Red- 
stone. Installed Jan. 14, 1884, Trinity Ch. 

No. 231. Robert H. Kirk, Received as a candidate Feb. 4, 1884, 
Pby. Phila. 

No. 232. Asbury C. Clark. Received May 5, 1884, Pby. North- 
umberland. Installed May 15, 1884, North Ch. 
No. 233. John H. Elliott. Received as a licentiate Sept. 1, 1884, 

Ref. Pby. of Phila. Dismissed March 2, 1885, Pby. Lackawanna. 
No. 234. Henry C. Fox. Received Sept. 1, 1884. Licensed April 

11, 1887. Dismissed Sept. 5, 1887, Pby. Phila. Phila. Pby. No. 748. 
No. 235. H. "W. Tolson. Received as a candidate Oct. 7, 1884. 
No. 236. Madison C. Peters. Received Oct. 7, 1884, Pby. Ottawa. 

Installed Oct. 14, 1884, N. L. First Church. 
No. 237. Peter G. Rambo. Received Nov. 3, 1884. Licensed 

April 13, 1885. Ordained Feb. 12, 1886. 
No. 238. Lawrence M. Colfelt. Phila. Pby., No. 653. Received 

Feb. 2, 1885, Pby. Phila. Ordained by the Pby. Monmouth, May 9, 

1872. Installed Feb. 15, 1885, Oxford Ch. D.D. 
No. 239. Rene Brettinghausen. Received as a candidate April 

7, 1885. 
No. 240. Carl Schwartzbach. Received May 4, 1885, Classis 

Long Island. Installed June 17, 1885, Carmel Ch. Released Sept. 

5, 1887. Dismissed April 3, 1888, Pby. West Jersey. 
No. 241. William Sterrett. Received with Covenant Ch. Sept. 7, 

1885, Ref. Pby. Phila., in accordance with the Act of the Gen. 

Assembly, 1885. D.D. 
No. 242. James Mattheson. Received as a candidate Sept. 7, 1885. 
No. 243. Wm. H. McCaughey. Received Jan. 5, 1886, Pby. 

Washington. Installed Jan. 14, 1886, Mantua Second Ch. 
No. 244. Francis Lloyd. Received as a candidate Jan. 6, 1886. 
No. 245. David Wills, Jr. Received March 1, 1886, Pby. New 

Brunswick. Installed March 8, 1886, Spring Grarden Ch. Released 

and dismissed Feb. 21, 1887, Pby. New Brunswick. 
No. 246. Harry W. Haring. Received as a candidate May 2, 1886. 



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No. 247. H. F. Bernhart. Received June 7, 1886, Pby. Hudson. 
Installed July 11, 1886, Zion Ch. Released and dismissed Oct. 4, 
1887, Pby. Brooklyn. 

No. 248. Charles Wadsworth, Jr. Phila. Pby. No. 710. Re- 
ceived as a licentiate June 29, 1886, Pby. Phila. Ordained Sept. 
16, 1886. 

No. 249. Julius A. Herold. Received Sept. 6, 1886, Pby. Mahon- 
ing. Installed Sept. 29, 1886, Green Hill Cb. 

No. 250. William Morrison. Received Sept. 16, 1886. Licensed 
and ordained April 11, 1887. Dismissed May 2, 1887, Pby. Oregon. 

No. 251. Samuel Heuston. Received as a candidate Oct. 6, 1886. 

No. 252. Reuben Hormon. Received as a candidate Nov. 1, 1886. 

No. 253. Albert Wirth. Received as a candidate Jan. 4, 1887. 

No. 254. Alfred Staeger. Received as a candidate .Tan. 4, 1887. 

No. 255. Wm. G. Pollock. Received as a licentiate Jan. 4, 1887, 
Pby. Washington. Dismissed Sept. 5, 1887, Pby. Pueblo. 

No. 256. James H. Fitzsimmons. Received Jan. 4, 1887. Li- 
censed June 6, 1887. Dismissed Oct. 4, 1887, Pby. Meagherafelt, 
Ireland. 

No. 257. David S. Clark. Received Feb. 7, 1887. Licensed April 
11, 1887. 

No. 258. David Wills. Received Feb. 21, 1887, Pby. Washington 
City. Installed March 3, 1887, North Tenth Street Ch. D.D. 

No. 259. Alexander Alison. Received May 2, 1887, Pby. Balti- 
more. Installed June 5, 1887, Alexander Ch. 

No. 260. Nathaniel L. Upham. Received May 2, 1887, Pby. West 
Jersey. 

No. 261. Francis H. Moore. Received as a minister from the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, May 2, 1887. 

No. 262. Robert Moore. Received as a candidate May 2, 1887. 

No. 263. Wellington E. Loucks. Received Oct. 4, 1887, Pby. 
Logansport, Ind. 

No. 264. Jay B. Fisher. Received as a candidate Nov. 7, 1887. 
Dismissed April 9, 1888, Pby. Lima. 

No. 265, Edward G. Fullerton. Received as a candidate, Nov. 
7, 1887. Licensed April 9, 1888. 

No. 266. Charles H. Schleuter. Received Nov. 7, 1887, Pby. 
Brooklyn. Installed Dec. 16, 1887, Carmel Ch. 

No. 267. George B. Bell. Received as a licentiate Jan. 3, 1888, 
Pby. New Brunswick. Ordained and installed Jan. 9, 1888, Pat- 
terson Mem. Ch. 

No. 268. C. Theodore Albrecht. Received Jan. 3, 1888, Pby. 
Elizabeth. Installed Jan. 12, 1888, Zion Ch. 



MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 195 

No. 269. Archibald A. Murphy. Received Jan. 3, 1888, Pby. 

Lehigh. Installed Jan. 24, 1888, Spring Garden Ch. Ordained 

Jan. 13, 1881, Pby. Phila. North. 
No. 270. B. B. Bigler. Received as a candidate Jan. 3, 1888. 
No. 271. Cyrus A. Price. Received as a candidate Jan. 3, 1888. 

Licensed April 9, 1888. 
No. 272. Perry S. Allen. Received April 3, 1888, Pby. Erie. 



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